Consumer Math
Teacher: Rebecca Javins
Grades: 10 - 12
Meets: Monday
Class Description: Show your high school students how math is used in everyday life. Students are introduced to mathematical skills relevant to everyday life, such as balancing a checkbook, calculating net pay, budgeting expenses, making cost comparisons, buying and renting a home, and finding the cost of operating a motor vehicle. Students also explore basic business topics, including borrowing money, investing, and calculating business profits and losses. The course guides students toward logical thinking and problem solving to help them make good decisions about money and finance. Through projects and activities, students apply their skills and knowledge to real-life situations.
Course Objectives Every student will:
Understand how to spend wisely and create a balanced budget
Understand crucial life skills such as buying insurance and filling a tax return
Compute regular, overtime and piecework wages.
Compute taxes from tables.
Reconcile a bank statement.
Compute finance charges and loan payments
Grading
Principles that are presented by the teacher are reinforced primarily through the use of practice problems, chapter questions, and chapter tests. Grading for Consumer Math is based on class work, homework, tests, and student productivity.
Prerequisites: Pre-Algebra and Geometry are recommended but not required.
Maximum Class Size: 12
Homework: There will be homework on a weekly basis that will be graded
Supplies that the students should bring to class:
Consumer Math Success Kit, Second Edition; ISBN: 0825128528; Walch Publishing
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Cost: $60/month January-May 2008
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