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Money Math Lessons for Life
An outstanding lesson on financial literacy is here for you. Learners are presented with six scenarios, then compute the amount of savings they will have in their accounts. They complete a series of exercises designed to teach them that...
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Business Management and Administration: Compound Interest - A Millionaire's Best Friend
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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Logarithmic Functions
Learners explore the characteristics of logarithmic functions and their relationship to exponential functions. Using the subscriber website Explorelearning.com, pupils observe changes in the input variable and its effect on the graph of...
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Buying Cars/Financing Cars Compound Interest
Provide a real world context in which exponential functions are used to determine a eal world phenomena such as compound interest and exponential growth. This lesson should be taught after students have mastered the laws of exponents and...
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Investing for the Future
Twelfth graders perform basic calculations for saving and investment strategies. they simulate the investment of $1,000 in the stock market and savings account. they determine which pays the greater dividend.
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Exponential Graph Functions
In this exponential functions worksheet, students solve and complete 13 various types of problems. First, they define what is different and what is the same about exponential and linear functions. Then, students write a rule for each...
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Lesson 25 - Applications of Logarithmic Functions
in this applications of logarithmic functions activity, students solve 11 short answer problems. Students use logarithms to find half lives, compound interest, and population growth given a word problem.
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Pre-calculus Unit 3 Test 2
Students will solve exponential function problems, graph exponential functions, find the value of logarithms, determine future value, and compound interest. In this Pre-calculus lesson, students will use the properties of logs to solve...
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M & M Interesting
Students compute and collect interest payments in the form of M&M candies. In this mathematics instructional activity, students work in small groups to compute either simple or compound interest. They compare the growth of their...
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Simple and Compound Interest
In this simple and compound interest worksheet, students find the ending balance to simple interest problems. They determine the total value of investments compounded over a period of years. This four-page worksheet contains 20 interest...
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FILLING EMPTY POCKETS: BORROWING, LOANS AND CREDIT.
Students learn that maintaining financial security takes a good math understanding. In this lesson, students apply mathematical formulas to make important financial decisions like getting the right loan to buy a house, decide which...
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Compound Interest
In this compound interest worksheet, students solve 3 problems after reading about compound interest. They determine the cost of the Apollo missions, they calculate inflation and the cost it would be to send man to the moon today and...
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M&M Interesting
Students examine the concepts of trade-offs and opportunity cost to decide between savings accounts with simple interest and those with compound interest. They calculate interest earned on account balances while working in groups and...
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Manhattan & the Indians
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders determine the interest rate at which you would have to invest $24 in 1626 in order for it to be worth $730 trillion in 2007. The one page worksheet contains one problem. Answer is provided.
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Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
In this Algebra II/Pre-calculus activity, students solve logarithmic and exponential equations in problem solving situations. The three page activity contains eleven problems. Answers are not provided.
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Thirty Exponential Application Problems
In this exponential worksheet, students solve thirty application problems. These problems cover compound interest, continuously compounded interest, and exponential growth models.
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Compound Interest Problem
In this compound interest worksheet, students solve 1 word problem about compound interest. Students determine the amount of money two men have to retire given two different saving scenarios.
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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?
Students explore saving and investing money. In this middle school personal finance lesson plan, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound...
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Compound Interest
Students solve compound interest problems. In this solving compound interest problems lesson, students use TVM Solver on the Ti-83 Plus. Students find the future value of a principal amount at a given interest rate compounded a certain...
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Filling Empty Pockets: Borrowing, Loans, and Credit
Students examine credit components and how each works within our economy today. In this financial literacy lesson plan, students explore credit terms and make decisions based on real credit card offers that they find in their on line...
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Logarithm Word Problems
In this logarithm worksheet, 8th graders solve 10 different word problems related to various logarithms. First, they determine the amount of compounded interest that will be in an account after a number of years. Then, students determine...
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MAT 106: Worksheet #9: Interest
In this interest worksheet, students determine the amount of compound interest paid on a loan, interest earned on investments, and balance at the end of a given period of time. This worksheet contains two real-world problems.
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Algebra Word Problems
In this inequality word problem activity, students solve ten word problems related to algebra and inequalities. They first determine how many pounds of cheese it would take to make a specific amount of grated cheese topping. Students...
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Chapter 12 - Objective 5.1 Formula Problems
In this formula worksheet, students read short story problems and determine the correct formula. They compute compound interest, use the Richter equation to figure magnitude and find the pH of given solutions. This one-page worksheet...