Consumer Math Success Kit, Second Edition

Teach your kids math skills they'll use every day! Offering clear explanations, worked-out examples, and real-life practice problems, this practical, alphabetically arranged resource develops expertise in more than 50 areas, including banking, budgets, credit, grocery shopping, heating costs, housing, income tax, investing, nutrition, sales tax, utility bills, travel planning, and more. Features helpful end-of-chapter teacher notes and answer key. 318 reproducible pages, softcover.

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Switched-On Schoolhouse 2008 Consumer Math

Do your students constantly ask, "When will I ever use math stuff?" Show them with this supplementary course that explores mathematical applications for daily use. Topics include personal finances and budgets; taxes and insurance; banking, investments, mortgages, and credit; and job-, business-, and transportation-related functions. Prerequisite: Algebra 1 and Geometry.

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Lets Investigate Money

Juvenile literature, this book in the Let's Investigate series provides simple history of money as it replaced bartering, explains how some types of money are used, and shows how things such as checks and credit cards serve as invisible money. Beautiful color photographs! We do carry the other books in the Let's Investigate series. Includes an index and glossary.

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Activities for Economics Education

Make economics concepts more vivid and tangible. With Activities for Economics Education you now have the means for incorporating hands-on activities that will not only add interest, but will also provide your students with a memorable way to learn and understand essential economics concepts. Additionally, the 19, ready-to-use reproducible activities in this timely resource will help students build important critical thinking and analytical skills.

• Activities span the spectrum of key economic concepts and principles, including the role of money, supply and demand, opportunity costs, and economic indicators, such as gross domestic product, foreign trade, and much more.
• Students can create their own personal consumer price index, calculate the local unemployment rate, and more.
• Comprehensive teacher support includes learning objectives, teaching tips and suggestions, references to Internet sites, and extension activities.
• Correlated to the National Standards for Business Education and the National Standards for Economics Education
• The perfect complement to any economics course, as well as to any business education or social studies course.

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Money Smarts: A Family Money Management Game

MoneySmarts simulates a year of family financial planning and decision making within 8 to 10 class periods. Students are grouped into families that include a wage earner, a financial manager, and a dependent. The families develop 12 monthly spending plans based on needs, wants, values, goals, and resources. They deal with unpredictable elements of money management through randomly selected monthly emergencies and quarterly financial bonuses.

This book's reproducible pages give you all the materials you need to set up and run the game. You get a page of financial concepts, outlines of family incomes and expenses, planning sheets for each month, paychecks, slips for the financial emergencies and bonuses, worksheets, and a final quiz. Detailed instructions and evaluation suggestions help you present this simulation easily and effectively in your classes.

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Lifepac Electives: Consumer Math, Complete Set

Show your high school students how math is used in everyday life with this supplementary course. Includes 10 student workbooks covering creative arithmetic and advanced computing skills; family finances such as income taxes, budgets, and interest rates; construction trades; service occupations; transportation; business services and payroll; occupational diagrams and housing plans; plus solution and test keys. For students grades 8 to 12 who have had Algebra 1 and Geometry.

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