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7th grade basic operations simulations under $5
Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 12th
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CCSS:
Percents: Understanding Credit Card Debt Worksheet for Student - Scenario 1
The question listed on Scenario 1 is as follows:
"In this scenario we purchased 1 item for $1000. (This could be a new TV, summer vacation, Laptop, etc.) We did not have the cash at the time so we charged it to our Visa. This particular credit card requires that we make a minimum payment of 13% each month. It also has an APR of 10%. Fill out the chart to find out how much you have paid at the end of the year and if you have a remaining balance. "
The chart is a great way for students to disc
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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The Game of Life | Math Exploration
PURPOSE: This simulation gives your math class a chance to experience what it is like to be an adult. Students will be randomly assigned a job and a family and be required to calculate a month’s worth of expenses.This activity brings up some great discussions about how money works, what happens when the money runs out, single parenting, managing a budget and so much more. This is such a useful resource for the modern middle school mathematics teacher!WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains:✏️ 18 p
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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SONAR Calculations and Graphing
In this classroom activity, students are guided through the calculations necessary to obtain ocean depth from SONAR data. Then they use data to complete a profile of the part of ocean floor from which the data came. Please note: this does not show all the parts of the ocean floor. Image and activity where adapted from Naval History STEM H.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Dream Home: Utilizing Money, Area, Perimeter, and Conversion
STEM UNIT: Becoming an architect may seem so wonderful, but students may think twice after designing, building, and repairing problems in their new home. This is a unit that allows students to use a combination of math skills and critical thinking to be the architect of their own dream home on a budget. The students will engage in researching architecture of homes and house plans, designing their house plan, purchasing materials and labor, and dealing with problems along the way. The skills used
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Profit & Loss Lemonade Stand Roleplay Game (Supply & Demand Lessons too)
Teach Profit & Loss (and Supply & Demand) through a fun game that students will enjoy. Also included in this pack is a fun auction lesson to teach supply & demand. I wanted to teach my students about profit and loss and give them an experience learning how a business works before they created their own. I wanted them to learn:- How to plan/organize what they need to buy- Keep a profit/loss record (doing the math themselves)- About borrowing/repaying loans (with interest that grows ov
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Checking Account Simulation
Do you need a lesson to teach students how to balance a checkbook? A PowerPoint presentation is included instructs students on how to balance their own checkbook and then gives them some "real world" practice. The PowerPoint includes writing a check, using a debit card, and making deposits. Also included is the handouts that you will give students in order for them to participate in the simulation. One handout is a checkbook register and the other handout has blank checks that students will writ
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Scholarship Project Based Learning - Adding & Subtracting Decimals
Congratulations! Your students are awarded a set amount of money to spend to decorate their college dorm room. The activity includes:
* Step by Step Instructions
* Balance Sheet
* Sample Checks
* Additional Earning Opportunities
* Differentiation Suggestions
* Teacher Tips
* Rubric
With this problem based learning activity, your students will have practice adding and subtracting decimals, balancing a check registry, writing checks, planning a budget, shopping for the best deal, and man
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Vocational Support- Calculating Gross Pay
Whether individuals participate in competitive employment or sheltered employment, they need to be able to calculate their pay. Individuals can be paid in a variety of ways: hourly, by piece, commission, or salary. For this resource, I have chosen to focus on hourly pay. In the next few weeks I will publish other resources with piece pay, commission and salary. I will also be publishing work that relates to deductions and net pay. This is a great transition activity and can also be tied to vocat
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Vocational Support Bundle
Caribbean Economy Simulation (Supply and Demand/Single Crop)
In this simulation, students will play the role of Plantation owner and will try to grow their sugarcane empire through buying and selling fields, paying workers' wages and government taxes, and reaping the profit after each harvest. However, it also demonstrates the law of supply and demand and teaches a lesson about diversifying your economy as the price of sugarcane fluctuates on the world market from harvest to harvest. Students wait in breathless anticipation as each harvest price is reveal
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Life Science - Natural Selection and Adaptations of Ocean Organisms
This Life Science lab investigation explores natural selection and adaptations of ocean organisms. The lab is directly tied to NGSS expectations (MS-LS4-4, MS-LS4-6).
INCLUDES:
• A one-page teacher guide with NGSS connections.
• A blank student-page with procedure, data table, and analysis questions.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Expressions & Equations: Very Small & Very Large Numbers
What more exciting way to discuss very small and very large numbers than with outer space as the backdrop?Students will use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other.Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future purchases:***Go to your My Purchases page. Click on the Provide Feedback button beside each purchase. You will be taken to a page where you can
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Make Your Own Company
I came up with the idea of creating a company as a form of authentic intellectual work. Fortunately for me, my principal officially observed me during this particular lesson and told me later that he taught it was “exceptional”. I hope you can use it in your classroom so the students can use their creativity and learn math at the same time. There’s a broad range of mathematical value that can be associated to this lesson including, but not limited to:
Ordering decimals
Adding decimals
Subtractin
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Multiplication Arrays - Scratch (Maths and Technology / ICT)
What better way to have students understand multiplication arrays than program them!
You will need Scratch for this to work. You can download it for FREE from https://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/
(Works with Scratch 1.4 and 2.0)
Included are instructions of how to make a programmable array and also various levels of technology/ICT skills.
It can also play sounds, change colours and hide the array with a black circle. Students can program to prompt for the answer and test whether it is co
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Conceptual Understanding for Operations: Rectangular Models
This PowerPoint includes animations for operations of whole numbers, decimals fractions and place value with rectangular models. You can demonstrate to students side-by-side the procedural and conceptual steps to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers. To properly show animation, present to Presentation View. This item is designed to make teachers' explanation of operations meaningful and connect different levels of rigor. Topics include: place value, adding whole numbers, subt
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Grades:
1st - 9th, Adult Education
Paper Tower Project
Students use a budget to build the most economical tower. They use graphing skills to graph class data. Rubric is attached
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Expressions & Equations: Scientific Notation
Students will perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. They will use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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CCSS:
Slope and Inverse operations
Two small software to visualize slope and inverse operations that I programmed earlier to use in class on a smart board. Student can change by dragging the items to see the effect.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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