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Tax Rate -- Financial Literacy Percent - 21st Century Math Project

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Clark Creative Math
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Grade Levels
5th - 9th
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I loved this resource! It was very engaging with my students and sparked many, many questions about finance and the "real world." They asked more questions in one class period with this project than the past few weeks combined!
Excellent resource for my advanced 5th graders for a fun unit at the end of the year after we covered everything else! Thank you!
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Description

Introduce students to everyone's favorite topic -- Taxes. Often misunderstood, this project aims to be an introduction for students which allows them to work through real life scenarios and practice percentages.

In this 21st Century Math Project, you will be given a mapping to the Content Standards, an outline for how to implement the project, 4 different assignments for students to use, and an answer key. ***THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH A GOOGLE SLIDES INTERACTIVE VERSION INCLUDED. REDOWNLOAD IF YOU HAVE IT ALREADY***

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-- In“Flat Tax”, students will complete problems with Sales and Property Tax rates and help fictional people solve their problems.

-- In “Tax Code”, students will analyze the current tax code and make it more user friendly for the average consumer to avoid common misconceptions.

-- In “Tax Returns”, students will use the tax code to determine how much total income tax fictional people will owe at the end of the year.

-- In “Tax Reformer”, students will consider the current tax form and make some meaningful changes to the code. They will write a persuasive letter to a Congressmen explaining their suggestion and rationale for why it makes sense.

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Total Pages
15 pages
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Teaching Duration
4 days
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.
Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.

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