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Simple Interest

For Students 7th - 8th
In this simple interest activity, students use the interest formula to find missing values. They determine interest, principal, interest rates, and time borrowed. This one-page activity contains 12 problems.
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Calculating Interest

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the concept that when money is borrowed, people pay to use it because someone else is losing an opportunity to use it while they have it. What you pay to use the money is called interest. The rate of interest is a...
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Interest Problems

For Students 8th - 9th
For this interest problem worksheet, students read investment problems and determine necessary information. They compute the amount of simple interest earned, find the principal, or determine the time. They identify the principal,...
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The Business of Interest

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of simple and compound interest. In this interest instructional activity, students discuss how interest works on a loan. Students calculate simple and compound interest on loans of fictitious characters...
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Data Analysis: Investing is an "Interesting" Experience

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students compute interest earned. For this data analysis lesson, students examine investments and interest rates. They compute the total interest earned and find the simple interest.
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Time Value of Money- Compound Interest

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students study the concept of compound interest as it relates to the time value of money.
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Simple Interest

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice finding simple interest and apply their findings to real-world situations. They work with percents in the form of commission and sales taxes. After completing an assignment during independent practice, they are...
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Solving Problems Using Interest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students look for the solutions to the problems using interest. Then they calculate the new principal after adding the interest.
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Interest Word Problems

For Students 7th
In this interest worksheet, 7th graders solve 10 different problems that include word problems and determining interest rates. First, they determine the principal paid on a certain amount of money borrowed. Then, students determine how...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore saving and investing money.  In this middle school personal finance lesson, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound interest. ...
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Interest Calculation and Spreadsheets

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students, while in the computer lab working on a spreadsheet program, calculate interest and accumulated value of a savings plan. They follow specific directives on how to create their spreadsheets. At the end of the lesson they print...
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The Las Vegas Interest Problem

For Students 9th - 11th
In this interest rate worksheet, students solve for the annual interest rate charged given the amount borrowed and the daily interest charged.  The solution to the problem is provided.
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Simple Interest

For Students 6th - 10th
In this simple interest worksheet, students calculate the interest, price, rate, and time for word problems. Students complete 3 problems total.
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Credit: Taking an Interest in Credit

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine how credit works but looking at how credit cards and interest rates work. They use percentages to solve problems using credit card interest rates while completing a worksheets.
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Influencing the Agenda: The Impact of Interest Groups on Policy Making

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the role of interest groups and how they affect voters. In groups, they research how the groups have affected policy making in the county. They examine a specific issue and discover whether or not a vote was...
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Compound Interest Problem

For Students 9th - 12th
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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Interest Rate Assignment

For Students 9th - 12th
For this personal finance worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to calculate interest rates for loans of different lengths of time.
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MAT 106: Worksheet #9: Interest

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
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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Interest Rates Worksheet

For Students 11th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to calculate monthly payments, costs of loans, and interest charged.
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African Points of Interest

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders choose from a list of African points of interest and research information on its climate, products activities and more. Students write an outline and then a short story using their research.
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Investment Problems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this investment problem worksheet, students read story problems and use the interest formula to determine the total amount invested, or rate of return. This one-page worksheet contains six problems, with answers.
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Making Decisions

For Students 6th - 12th
A set of quizzes and assessments would make a great companion to your lesson on making decisions and opportunity risks. Learners watch a PowerPoint before answering multiple choice questions about interest rates, saving money, and the...
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Talking to Teens About Money

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Your teenagers are probably very good at spending money, but how good are they at managing it? Teach class members about banking, checking accounts, interest rates, car insurance, and many other relevant concepts with a series of...
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Compound Interest

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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