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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?
Young scholars explore saving and investing money. In this middle school personal finance lesson, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound...
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Mathematics Test Book 3
In this mathematics worksheet, students solve problems involving the Pythagorean Theorem, simple interest, distance formula and measurement conversions. This 20-page worksheet contains 10 multi-step problems.
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Compound Interest
Students solve compound interest problems. In this solving compound interest problems instructional activity, students use TVM Solver on the Ti-83 Plus. Students find the future value of a principal amount at a given interest rate...
Curated OER
The Business of Interest
Students explore the concept of simple and compound interest. In this interest lesson, students discuss how interest works on a loan. Students calculate simple and compound interest on loans of fictitious characters from a video.
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Simple Interest
In this simple interest worksheet, students use the interest formula to find missing values. They determine interest, principal, interest rates, and time borrowed. This one-page worksheet contains 12 problems.
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Calculating Interest
In this calculating interest worksheet, 7th graders solve 10 different problems that include determining the simple interest in each box. First, they identify and define the terms for finding the simple interest in each. Then, students...
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Percents
For this percents worksheet, learners solve 5 different problems that include determining various percents. First, they determine the percent of increase in population over a year. Then, students determine the sales tax of a product...
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Algebra Word Problems
In this inequality word problem worksheet, students solve ten word problems related to algebra and inequalities. They first determine how many pounds of cheese it would take to make a specific amount of grated cheese topping. Students...
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Simple Interest
Eighth graders practice finding simple interest and apply their findings to real-world situations. They work with percents in the form of commission and sales taxes. After completing an assignment during independent practice, they are...
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Topics in Math
In this consumer mathematics instructional activity, students explore a variety of topics in mathematics including simple interest, perimeter, area, volume, translating words into symbols, percentage problems and mortgage calculations....
Curated OER
Leveled Problem Solving Simple Interest
In this simple interest worksheet, students use leveled problem solving and solve the six problems that contain numbers for simple interest.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Simple Interest
This AAA Math lesson contains an explanation of simple interest and the formula for calculating simple interest. Links to practice problems and learning games.
Other
Study Finance: Time Value of Money
This resource presents brief explanations of topics related to interest, compound interest, and the time value of money.
Other
Sierra College: Elementary Algebra Review Sheet and Common Formulas
This review sheet includes important rules, properties, formulas, and equations needed to solve many Algebra problems.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Applying Percents 14 Questions
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking chapter test to assess your knowledge on percent applications. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. After completing the test students can click the "Check It" button and the correct...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Simple Interest
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of simple interest. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Applying Percents 12 Questions
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking chapter test to assess your knowledge on percent applications. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. After completing the test students can click the "Check It" button and the correct...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 1
Twenty-five problems present a variety of percent topics: percents as fractions, improper, and mixed numbers, percents as decimals, simple interest, and percent of increase/decrease. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Math for Everyone
Provides online programs and explanations on everyday math: calculating a tip at a restaurant, determining the sale price of an item, finding the odds of winning a lottery, computing simple and compound interest, and more.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rewriting Formulas
For this lesson, students explore "real-life" resources that make use of literal equations (rewriting known formulas) to help make people's lives easier. Students will use Excel to design formulas that find a specific value like those...
Yale University
Solving Problems by the Hundreds
This site contains a study of percentage and its applications in the study of consumer related problems. Problems involving sales tax are included. Examples, explanation, solutions and a bibliography are also included in the site.
Other
Finra Investor Education Foundation: Introduction to Earning Interest 9 & 10
This lesson for 9th and 10th graders focuses on the concept of compound interest and its effect on savings. Students will also learn how to compute simple and compound interest.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Consumer Math
From basics such as adding and subtracting money, converting coins, and making change to more advanced topics such as sales tax and simple interest, this interactive tutorial offers help with consumer math issues.
