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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Interest and the Number e

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Mary, Mary, quite continuously, how does your money grow? Uses examples to examine the difference between simple interest and compound interest, and to take a look at different rates of compounding. Learners explore what would happen as...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Compound Interest per Period: Credit Card Payment

For Students 10th - 12th
Credit cards can be convenient, but are they worth it? Future consumers learn about compound interest and credit card payments. They use an interactive to create a table that shows the remaining balance after each month.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Compounding with 100% Interest Rates

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young economists will be amazed at the effect of compounding interest more frequently in this collaborative task about making sound financial choices. Learners are walked through the calculations of a couple of examples and then...
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Assessment
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Simple and Compound Interest

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Your learners will get lots of practice calculating simple and compound interest by the end of this lesson. Simple explanations and examples lead learners through the concepts and steps of calculating simple and compound interest...
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Assessment
Mathed Up!

Compound Interest and Depreciation

For Students 8th - 11th
Discover how to find the value of an interest-bearing account. Individuals watch a video to learn how to use exponential functions to model compound interest. After the video, they complete a worksheet of problems on compound interest.
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Lesson Plan
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Business Management and Administration: Compound Interest - A Millionaire's Best Friend

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Many math concepts are covered through this resource: percentages, decimals, ratios, exponential functions, graphing, rounding, order of operations, estimation, and solving equations. Colorful worksheets and a link to a Google search for...
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Lesson Plan
SaveandInvest.org

Introduction to Earning Interest: Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members research three different ways they can earn money using money already in the bank. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Loan Amortization - Mortgage

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When you buy a home for $100,000, you pay $100,000—right?  On the list of important things for individuals to understand, the lesson presents the concept of interest rates and loan amortization using spreadsheets and online sources....
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Practical Money Skills

Saving and Investing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
You have to have money to make money, especially in the world of banking and investments. High schoolers learn about interest rates, saving and investment options, and ways to stay aware of their money's security and earning ability with...
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Lesson Plan
SaveandInvest.org

Introduction to Earning Interest: Grades 9-10

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? The lesson covers three different ways your money can make money. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money market accounts.
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Lesson Plan
SaveandInvest.org

Introduction to Earning Interest: Grades 11-12

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members investigate three different ways money can make more money. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money market accounts. This...
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PPT
BW Walch

Linear & Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Positioned inside the framework of linear and exponential functions, this lesson is more of an investigation into the effects of changing variables and constants inside an expression. The author takes familiar formulas, those for...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Continuous Interest

For Students 10th - 12th
Continue teaching your financial scholars about interest. A slider interactive has users investigate the growth of an account earning continuous interest. A set of challenge questions has them solve problems given a variety of situations.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Savvy Savers

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What are the benefits and risks of saving in an interest-bearing account? Pupils explore concepts like risk-reward relationship and the rule of 72, as well as practice calculating compound interest, developing important personal finance...
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Unit Plan
University of Missouri

Money Math

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Young mathematicians put their skills to the test in the real world during this four-lesson consumer math unit. Whether they are learning how compound interest can make them millionaires, calculating the cost of remodeling their bedroom,...
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Unit Plan
Beyond Benign

All A Loan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
When designing a house, it's important to know about percents. Through a series of three lessons, scholars first review percentages through an activity involving M&Ms and then apply that knowledge to calculate compound interest and...
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Assessment
Curated OER

The Bank Account

For Students 10th - 11th Standards
Your algebra learners become bankers for a day as they explore compounding interest and the formula used to calculate the balance in a savings account. Questions guide the learners as they analyze the formula's parts and their connection...
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Unit Plan
Radford University

Money and Finance

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Make the connection between money and exponential equations. Pupils continue financial lessons as they learn about compound interest in savings accounts. They extend the investigation of savings by looking at annuities, and then...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

A Penny Saved

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A penny saved is a penny earned! Scholars research the different ways to save money over a lifetime. They investigate the Rule of 72, compound interest, and sub-prime loans to gain an understanding of how banks aid in the saving process....
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

That’s Amazing!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 4th Standards
Follow a teach, practice, and apply routine to provide extra support with a themed unit created by Houghton Mifflin. Topics include compound words, noting details, action verbs, suffixes, compare, and contrast, verbs, fantasy, realism,...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

APR and APY: APR vs. APY

For Students 10th - 12th
Who wins the battle of the interest rates? Scholars use an interactive to investigate three different bank rates. Comparing APR and APY lets them see how nominal and effective rates differ.
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Website
University of North Carolina

Sentence Patterns

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
In an ideal world, sentences in a college-level essay should feature a variety of sentence types. In reality, most papers stick to simple and compound sentences, two of the types a handout on sentence patterns discusses. Part of a larger...
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Lesson Plan
Visa

A Way to Wealth: Understanding Interest and Investments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Money motivates! Help young bankers understand how math plays a part in investing. Give learners math practice while instilling real-world financial literacy skills.
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PPT
BW Walch

Creating and Graphing Exponential Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Frequently found in biology and economic application problems, exponential equations show up as stars in this introductory presentation. Taking no background or knowledge of exponentials for granted, the slides walk learners through the...

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