What do I want to do when I grow up? Learners research job categories and determine a career within the category. Using the chosen job, pupils find the hourly wage and calculate future income based on percentage wages. Individuals then calculate the cost of living and determine whether they will make enough to afford it along with determining how long it will take to buy a special treat for themselves.

Concepts

salaries, budgeting, linear equations, linear equations writing, scatter plots, linear regression, percent of mass, cost of living

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Work with counselors in the school to incorporate any career planning they might require
• Have class members with the same jobs compare their findings based on living locations

Classroom Considerations

• Assumes the class knows how to write and solve linear equations
• Makes an assumption that yearly raises cause monthly salaries to be different each month

Pros

• Contains a benchmark paper
• Includes a list of assumed prerequisites

Cons

Common Core

MP1 MP4 MP5 HSA-CED.A.2 HSA-REI.B.3 HSS-ID.B.6.a HSS-ID.B.6.c