Your final exam is the final opportunity to shine. A short YouTube video teaches viewers how to determine what score individuals must receive on the final exam to get an A for the course. It shows how to set up an equation using weighted averages and how to solve for the required final exam score.

Concepts

averages, statistics, writing equations, weighted averages

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Provide learners with their own scores to calculate the necessary final exam score for a desired grade
  

Classroom Considerations

• Note that there is another video, Determine How a Final Exam Score Affect a Course Grade Using the TI84, which shows the same example, but it uses a graphing calculator
• Pupils should be able to write and solve linear equations
• Video assumes knowledge of weighted averages
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Shows each step of the solution process
  

Cons

• Covers only one example of the type of the problem
  

Common Core

HSA-CED.A.1