Interest (Part 2)

Your learners will get lots of practice calculating simple and compound interest by the end of this lesson. Simple explanations and examples lead learners through the concepts and steps of calculating simple and compound interest...

Mary, Mary, quite continuously, how does your money grow? Uses examples to examine the difference between simple interest and compound interest, and to take a look at different rates of compounding. Learners explore what would happen as...

Watch as the Secret Math Tutor demonstrates how to compute simple interest in a helpful math video. The narrator poses a word problem and formula before working through the problem, complete with explanation and work shown.

The isosceles triangle comes with its own set of properties. A lecturer shows how to apply the Isosceles Triangle Theorem to find missing side lengths or angle measures. The final example involves both square roots and quadratic equations. 

Linear equations aren't just for graphing! Scholars use a linear equation to model a contextual situation. A step-by-step direct instruction video describes how to find a solution using general problem-solving strategies and then how to...

View this tutorial for more than just a description of the formula for compound interest! An instructor goes through a problem, showing how to find simple interest and compound interest. After she completes each version, she explains the...

How much is owed? A calculated resource introduces the simple interest formula with a video that describes how to use it. Classmates then show what they know by answering questions within a simple interest worksheet.

Your learners will dance in their seats as this talented drummer connects math to music in a short video clip. Clayton Cameron shows how math puts the "cool" in various genres of music, including jazz, hip-hop, pop, R&B, and others,...

Capture the hearts of your young statisticians with this real-life example of using statistics in online dating. The use of average and geometric mean are discussed in the context of creating the algorithm used to connect people.

Credit cards can be convenient, but are they worth it? Future consumers learn about compound interest and credit card payments. They use an interactive to create a table that shows the remaining balance after each month.