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Buying My First Car
Learners pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Road Trip!
Students plan a road trip, choosing destinations to visit and determining how much the trip cost. They create a journal that illustrates how they got from one place to another, and includes an expense sheet for each stretch.
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VAROOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Students simulate purchasing a car. They use various search engines on the Internet to research the car purchase. Students investigate types of cars, trade in value, insurance costs, interest rates and monthly costs.
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Hot Wheels (Grades 9-12 )
Using internet research, young scholars compute the costs of different models of card. They discuss the advantages/disadvantages of purchasing a new car versus a used car, the cost of car insurance, and the best way to finance their...
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One Hundred Bucks of Pets
In this algebra learning exercise, learners are given a 100 dollars and are asked to buy 100 animals at the pet store. They have to purchase atleast one of every kind of animals available in the store and spend exactly 100 dollars. They...
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Money Game
Fourth graders give change of one dollar. In this decimal and fractions instructional activity, 4th graders receive fake coins and discuss what they could purchase with them. Students go for a walk and spend one dollar and get their...
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Estimating Prices
Students practice making reasonable estimates. In this consumer math, students round purchase prices of items to estimate the total cost. Students practice using metal computations to arrive at estimates.
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Investigation: Kinetic and Potential Energy
A well-developed lab sheet guides physical science learners through an investigation of kinetic and potential energy. In small groups, collaborators discover whether or not the ramp height or mass of an object has an effect on the...
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Roller Coasters
Twisting and turning through the sky, roller coasters are popular attractions at amusement parks around the world, but how exactly do they work? Explore the physics behind these thrilling rides with an engineering design activity....
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Protecting Your Money
How can you tell if a commercial or salesperson is being misleading? Encourage your learners to protect themselves and their money with a lesson about consumer rights. They review laws that keep consumers safe from faulty claims and...
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Oil Lesson Plan- Automobile Insurance
Students investigate the importance of having car insurance and the effects of not having it in the case of an accident. They use an internet website to participate in different activities. Students conduct research while answering...
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Budgeting and Travel
Students plan a trip to the Olympics. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students are given a worksheet describing the cost of necessities for their trip. Students are given a balance and must purchase airline ticket, hotel...
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Calculating Interest
Students solve interest problems for bank accounts and loans to gain real life experience. They also review newspapers and find a car they wish to purchase then are given a rate and time of loan.
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Why Use Money? Getting What We Need
Students learn the difference between purchase, barter, and payment for service, then explore how the Akan and North African people used a barter system to exchange gold and salt. They identify the most efficient ways of procuring your...
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Mechanical Monsters
Students experiment try to build a Lego car. In this physical science lesson students present and demonstrate the vehicle that they constructed.
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Junkyard Wars: Mechanical Monsters
Young scholars examine slope and build a Lego car that can take a steep slope. In this mechanics lesson plan students build a car and demonstrate them in class and describe what they did.
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Set Up Your Own Apartment
Students divide into groups and 'set up' an apartment together making lists of items to purchase from an allowance of money. They gain practice with basic equations in a real life context.
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Time Trials
Students investigate speed, time and distance. For this algebra lesson, students utilize their knowledge of linear equations to solve problems related to time, speed and distance. This assignment is hands on using two toy race cars.
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Reality Check
Fourth graders practice living on a budget. They must plan for rent, utilities, and food and determine if they can afford the luxuries of a phone, car, gas, movies, clothes, etc., using a newspaper to gather their information.
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Haring Art Truck
Students are introduced to the work of Keith Haring and graffiti art in general. They work together to design and paint a car imitating Keith Haring's style.
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Convince Me!
Students analyze advertisements meant to persuade a reader to purchase a certain product or service to find out what stands out about the ad or what it is about the ad that persuade readers. They complete an analysis chart, and discuss...
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ABC's Of Figuring Interest
High schoolers participate in a lesson of figuring interest. This is done in order to strengthen number calculation skills while computing the interest when buying different things. This done in conjunction with using credit to make...
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Nuclear Energy
Extensive background material, clear objectives, and more are provided to help you teach an introduction to nuclear power. Learners will be able to explain how nuclear power is generated and how it compares to coal-created power. Provide...
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So You Want to Drive an Automobile?
Students research types of auto insurance that are required in the state of Florida. They choose an automobile and find the cost of insurance to legally drive it.