FINANCIAL/PRACTICAL MATH
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Welcome to the 2018 - 2019 School Year!
Check here for Semester 2 weekly topics and assignments
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FINAL PROJECT:
Due Tuesday, June 12th (Senior finals)
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Financial Math will complete a final project in lieu of a final exam. This project is due Tuesday, June 12th at the conclusion of Senior Finals. Students will create a business plan apply skills learned in Financial Math (budgeting, taxes, revenue, and expenses). The final product will include a business description, marketing plan, advertisement, and Excel workbook that includes start-up costs and business plan calculations. Students should take the time to research realistic costs, salaries, tax rates, and loan interest rates. After the final (seniors graduation) underclassmen will do skills practice activities and worksheets for the remainder of the school year.
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Budget Resources:
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Week of 5/20 - 5/24
Financial Math completed the unit on Macroeconomics learning about the U.S. annual budget, deficits/surpluses and debt. Students completed an informal unit assessment and completed a final IEP data assessment. The final project was introduced. Practical math students continued work on building basic math skills and introductory algebra applications.
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Week of 5/13- 5/17
Financial Math students continued the survey of macroeconomics. Students learned about the basic principles of macroeconomics including hyperinflation, economic growth cycles, recessions and depressions, and federal fiscal policy. Practical math students continued work on building basic math skills and introductory algebra applications.
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Week of 5/6 - 5/10
Financial Math students began a survey of macroeconomics. Students learned about the basic principles of macroeconomics including gross domestic product (GDP), nominal vs. real GDP, per capita GDP and inflation. Practical math students continued work on building basic math skills and introductory algebra applications.
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Week of 4/29 - 5/3
Financial Math finished the unit on microeconomics. Students learned about the basic principles of microeconomics including calculating breakeven points, marginal revenue and marginal analysis. Students took a unit quiz to demonstrate their knowledge. Practical math students continued work on building basic math skills and introductory algebra applications.
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Microeconomics quiz study guide and notes can be found here can be found here:
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Week of 4/22 - 4/26
Financial Math students continued the unit on microeconomics. Students continued to learn about supply and demand, including elasticity of supply and demand. Students focused on supply and pricing strategies that account for fixed and variable expenses. Practical math students continued work on building basic math skills focusing on place value.
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Week of 4/15 - 4/19
Financial Math students began a unit introducing microeconomics. Students learned about the basic principles of microeconomics including voluntary exchange, scarcity, supply and demand, and pricing and markup strategies. Practical math students continued work on building basic math skills and introductory algebra applications.
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Week of 4/1 - 4/5
Financial Math students completed the unit on insurance. Students learned about medical insurance, copays, deductibles, cost sharing and annual maximums. Students did an informal assessment to measure growth of insurance knowledge. Students finished their multi-week stock tracking project. Practical math students continued work on building basic math skills and introductory algebra applications.
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The Stock Tracker Excel Workbook can be found here:
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Week of 3/25 - 3/29
Financial Math students continued the unit on insurance. Students learned about ways to protect their investments and dependents, learning about life insurance, disability insurance, and mortgage insurance. Students did a multi-day exercise to understand risk and probability. Practical math students continued work on real numbers and learned about the distributive property.
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Week of 3/18 - 3/22
Financial Math students completed the credit unit by doing an analysis activity of various credit offers (visa, store credit, pay day lenders) to understand some of the charges and interests associated with each type of credit. Students began a unit on insurance, topics included car insurance and home owners and rental insurance. Practical math students did a practice unit on properties of real numbers.
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Week of 3/11 - 3/15
Financial Math students continued the unit on credit. Topics included credit vocabulary, and applications of the 20-10 rule to approximate appropriate total credit and monthly credit payments. Students took a cumulative assessment on the credit unit, including compound interest applications. Practical math students worked on substitution in algebraic expressions.
Financial Math students can access these documents to study for the quiz.
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Week of 3/4 - 3/8
Financial Math students began a unit on credit. Topics include math applications of compound interest, determining creditworthiness, credit scores, how to build credit and maintain strong credit. Practical math students proceeded to solving one-step algebraic equations using cross multiplication.
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Financial Math students can find notes here:
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Week of 2/25 - 3/1
The snow days have altered the schedule for our stock market unit. Students will learn the difference between simple interest and compound interest. Students will solve word problems using the compound interest formula and also learn about the rule of 72 for simple compounding estimations. Students continued to track their stock portfolio and calculate rates of return. Practical math students began a unit on ratios and proportions and will to build to one-step algebraic applications.
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Financial Math students can find the study guide, vocabulary and notes/formulas worksheet here:
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Week of 2/6 - 2/8
This week Financial Math continued working on the stock market unit. Students created a stock portfolio that they will track over the next seven weeks. Students continued to learn stock market vocabulary and practice skills including the break-even point and calculating dividends. Practical math students worked learned order of operations and did practice problems to build the foundational knowledge to progress with algebraic problems.
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Week of 1/29 - 2/1
This week Financial Math students started an introduction to the Stock Market. Students selected a company they were interested in following and researched history, past performance and company statistics. Students learned stock market vocabulary and how to calculate return on investment (ROI). Practical math students continued to work on one-step equations, both practicing calculations and setting up word problems.