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Treasury Direct: Money Math: Lessons for Life: Math and Taxes:a Pair to Count On Unit PlanTreasury Direct: Money Math: Lessons for Life: Math and Taxes:a Pair to Count On Unit Plan
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Treasury Direct: Money Math: Lessons for Life: Math and Taxes:a Pair to Count On

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Students have the opportunity to see how the money they earn is dependent, to a great extent, on the education they gain, by examining occupations and salaries. They then will use pay stubs and tax tables to learn what happens to the portion of their earnings that they do not take home. A good introduction into the realities of wage-earning.

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human capital, income, income tax, money math, net income, taxes

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earning potential, figuring taxes, gross income, math and taxes, savings, tax rates, tax tables

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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