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PreAlgebra Financial Literacy Unit

The students in Mrs. Zwilling's PreAlgebra class have started a year-long unit on financial literacy.  In this unit students will practice and learn mathematical calculations involving decimals, percents, negative integers, and order of operations.  They will apply these skills to financial calculations including balancing a check register, creating a budget, adding sales tax to a purchase price (percent increase), determining the sale price (percent decrease), and determining simple and compound interest.  They will use the probability and statistics they learn later in the year to look at financial reports and stock market data.

So far this year, students have been given checks for their collective work on a Gimkit, unit assessments, and IXL.  They will be able to use these earnings for the first time in the PreAlgebra Halloween Class Store (pictured above).   After selecting from items including 24 hours of calculator use, a review game for the class, and extra supplies for the next project, students will click on the cash register which is linked to a form where they will ask them to complete a series of financial literacy math problems (shown below).

 



Learning about the Halloween store






Practicing financial math calculations using a Gimkit

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