11th grade decimals handouts for Easel

Compound Interest: How $100 can grow to $4690! Personal Finance Worksheets

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This lesson will show students why compound interest is so helpful to investors! Students will be given an initial investment and a yearly interest rate. Each student in the class can have different values so they have to do their own work and so comparisons can be made. Students carefully calculate the amount of compound interest they would earn over ten years. They check their work using the compound interest formula. Then they can use the formula to calculate compound interest for longer peri

Subjects:

Applied Math, Decimals, Other (Math)

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

7.RP.A.3

, HSA-SSE.B.4

Also included in: Interest and Inflation Financial Literacy Bundle: 5 Lessons & FREEBIE