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Simulate real-world personal budgeting by assigning each student a fictional career with a salary and student loan debt, then guiding them through calculating take-home pay and a full monthly household budget.
A cross-curricular project-based-learning module blending environmental science (urban heat island effect, hydrological disruption) with municipal-finance math (capital vs. operational expenditures, opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis) around the theme of designing a climate-resilient city.
Guided notes, practice, and a hands-on data collection mini-project introducing scatter plots to meet CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.SP.A.1.
Multi-day project-based math unit where students plan a themed class party: brainstorming, researching costs from store flyers, adding decimals to build a budget, and designing a proposal, aligned to Common Core math-practice and grade 3-4 ELA writing standards.
A choice-board math project for 5th grade students to review a self-selected math topic in depth through a creative product of their choosing, at the end of the school year.
This resource is an Economics: Personal Finance Student Project. In this 18 page product (Google and Traditional version provided) students will have everything they need to complete a research project on personal finance. While completing this project, students will develop an understanding of how much it really costs to live on their own and support…
Here’s a realistic and engaging way to teach upper elementary pupils in grades 3-6 about budgeting while introducing some basic financial literacy too! How to Use: 1) Each student will be assigned a monthly budget (from $1,700 all the way to $5,000). 2) They select one of three options (low, medium, pricey) for each spending category: housing, eating,…
A multi-file resource package teaching the mathematical/historical concept of the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci numbers, connecting math to art, nature, and architecture, via a slideshow, student guide, and project materials.
A six-part STEM design project that has students apply circuit knowledge (open, closed, parallel, series) and algebra to design, cost out, and present a working simple machine or toy powered by batteries.
A real-world financial literacy budgeting project where students research and compare the three ways to pay for a car (saving, loan, lease) and calculate the full monthly cost of car ownership.
A five-project STEAM/project-based-learning packet connecting the novel 'The War That Saved My Life' to WWII history through hands-on engineering, art, math, and science activities.
Twelve math topics — area, perimeter, volume, decimals, elapsed time, a multi-step word problem, interpreting data, converting units, fractions, geometry, place value, and rounding — become the twelve faces of a fold-and-glue dodecahedron. Students write and illustrate their own original problem for each face, cut out the separate pieces, crease the tabs and glue the pieces into a 3D shape, and either swap dice with a partner to solve each other's problems or solve every face themselves in a self-contained version. A four-category rubric grades handwriting/assembly neatness, problem accuracy, completeness of all 12 faces, and creativity of the illustrations. Teachers R Us Homeschool includes both the partner-exchange version with a separate answer/record sheet and a solo version where students create and solve every problem on their own dodecahedron.
A multi-day project-based learning activity in which students design a garden/flower bed, applying area and perimeter math to squares and rectangles.
A middle/high school personal finance and budgeting project teaching students to differentiate needs vs. wants and build a monthly budget.
A personal-finance project teaching middle and high school students how checking accounts work, including writing/endorsing/voiding checks, using debit cards and ATMs, and balancing a checkbook ledger.
A high-school math/data-literacy summative project task that has students research a topic of their choice to identify bias in how data is gathered, presented, and interpreted in the media.
A high-school life-skills project (Module 1 of a 'Moving Out On Your Own' series) that has students research real apartment listings and evaluate housing options to build independent-living and budgeting skills.
An open-ended, multi-day math performance task (project) in which students plan a sleepover event, applying money math, time-telling, measurement, reading and writing skills across a series of real-world problems; intended for enrichment / early-finisher / gifted-and-talented use once core skills are mastered.
Guide students through a real-world multi-step math project applying arithmetic, geometry, spatial reasoning, and budgeting skills by planning and pricing a bedroom renovation.
Apply linear-equation and budgeting math skills to an end-of-year 'staycation' planning project.
Influenced by the novel Chasing Vermeer, the S.T.E.A.M.-based activities included in this product focus on the content areas of math and art.
A multi-day real-world math project in which students practice adding decimals/money by proposing a classroom library book order within a budget.
A research project where students investigate a specific U.S. university (assigned by state) covering costs, admissions requirements, degree/sport offerings, and student demographics, to build understanding of post-secondary options.
Students investigate a coronavirus growth model and organize their work into a graph, explanations, and a conclusion. Project instructions, a grading rubric, and student examples show how the final presentation can be structured. Use the project as an Algebra 2 application of exponential functions, with the pandemic material treated as a historical context for the mathematics.