Successive Discounts

In this proportional reasoning learning exercise, students use proportions to solve discount and sale problems. This two-page learning exercise contains 4 multi-step problems.

Newspaper in Education (NIE) Week honors the contributions of the newspaper and is celebrated in the resource within a civics, mathematics, and fine arts setting. The resource represents every grade from 3rd to 12th with questions and...

Prepare your class for a life of financial literacy and stability with a unit about making money. Three lessons guides learners through the process of preparing a resume, interviewing for a job, and reading a pay stub.

Everyone loves a vacation and a set of three activities has groups planning a tour of the U.K. using given distance, time, and price data. They solve a variety of problems related to the trip and produce a report on the success of the trip.

In this activity, students solve and complete 50 various types of problems. First, they identify and define various terms listed related to personal and business finance. Then, students calculate various costs and payments using the...

From evaluating the current employment market to building a resume, pupils are introduced to the wide and varied elements of career planning. 

This first of twelve algebra 2 resources provides a broad review of many algebra 1 concepts through a number of separable lessons and labs. Starting with the real number system and its subsystems, the sections quickly but thoroughly move...

In this algebra worksheet, students solve word problems by calculating the compositions of functions by two or more functions in a succession. There are 14 problems involving discounts and shopping to solve.

Ninth graders calculate percents of change as it relates to discounts. In this algebra lesson, 9th graders are taught how to take the percentage of a number and find the finals answer on a sale for example. They review solving percent of...

High schoolers investigate successive discounts.  In this successive discounts lesson, students discuss how successive discounts work.  High schoolers compare successive discounts to a regular discount.  Students find the successive...