Introduce your young adults to the important understanding that the money they receive from their paychecks is a net amount as a result of deductions from taxes. Other topics covered include federal, state, Medicare and social...

Young scholars investigate opening a bank account.  In this secondary Consumer Mathematics lesson, students  read A Guide to Your First Bank Account and take a short quiz on the information.

Budgeting, net vs. gross pay, savings, and fees are all key elements of personal financing and essential for your class members to learn about as young adults.

Students find out how to use annual reports to analyze a corporation whose stock they may buy for the Global Stock Game. They read the investor information section, which provides detailed information about the company's products and...

Explore the concept of financial planning by reading an article about 5 families and their plans to save money. High schoolers discuss the progress each family made financially after three months, and then make their own financial plan.

Fourth graders perform basic calculations using time. They read and construct a variety of scales, timetables, and charts. Students devise and use problem solving strategies to explore the situation mathematically.

Students solve a math word problem involving repeated addition. They identify the important information in the problem, brainstorm ways to solve the problem, and solve the problem and discuss the solution as a class.

Students subtract using decimals and find half of a decimal number. They write and solve problems which involve decimals and which require a choice of one or more of the four arithmetic operations.