Life Skills Math
Instructor: Mr. Hanson
Phone: 320-629-4124
E-mail: [email protected]
Length: Full year course
Credit: One Credit per year
Course Description
Life Skills Math is designed to build a students consumer skills for independent living. The focus of the course is to help students apply math concepts that they will use in real life situations at school, home and one the job. Students will review basic math concepts such as whole number operations, decimals, fractions, percentages, and ratios. Students will apply those basic math skills to real life situations such as earning money, managing money, using credit wisely, and comparison shopping. Students will also work on building vocabulary related to consumer topics covered in this course. This course is intended to be a full year course; however, students can earn 1/2 credit for each semester completed.
Major Topics Covered
1. Earning Money
2. Place Value
3. Whole Number Operations
4. Using Decimals
5. Using Percents
6. Estimating and Counting Money
7. Elapsed Time
8. Banking Services
9. Using a Checking Account
10. Budgeting
11. Using Credit Wisely
12. Protection against Identity Theft
13. Comparison Shopping
14. Using Fractions
15. Using Ratios
16. Using Proportions
17. Measurement
18. Basic Geometry
19. Basic Insurance Needs
20. Traveling
Major Learner Outcomes
Students will:
1. Round, estimate, and count money.
2. Measure elapsed time to compute wages earned.
3. Use percent to compute sales tax, discounts, and sale price.
4. Compute simple and compound interest
5. Identify banking services available.
6. Manage a mock checking account.
7. Complete a budget sheet and set budget goals.
8. Identify ways to manage money responsibly.
9. Gain an understanding of credit and how to use it wisely.
10. Identify ways to protect money and identity.
11. Gain an awareness of cost saving techniques when shopping.
12. Identify resources available to consumers.
13. Use ratios, proportions, and probability as they apply to daily living situations such cooking, reading a scale drawing, and games of chance.
14. Use fractions as they apply to daily living situations such as measurement
15. Identify basic customary and metric measurement including liquid capacity, weight, and length.
16. Apply formulas to compute perimeter, area and volume to basic geometric shaped.
17. Gain an awareness of basic insurance needs for independent living.
18. Identify costs involved with traveling and reading related forms such as maps and bus schedules.
Materials used in class
A variety of materials will be used for this course depending on student needs. Textbooks used are based on standards that correlate to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The following textbooks may be used, in part for this course:
1.Life Skills Math, AGS Publishing
2. Consumer Mathematics, AGS Publishing
3. Mathematics Connections, Glencoe /McGraw-Hill Publishing
4. NEFE High School Financial Planning Program, 2012
5. Passing the Minnesota Basic Standards Test, American Book Company
Materials Students Need To Bring
Students should bring the following materials everyday to class:
1. Pencil
2. Spiral bound notebook
3. Basic Calculator
Evaluation
Students will earn a grade of Pass/Fail. Students need to earn at least 70% of the total points to receive a passing grade. Students will earn points for the following categories:
1. Participation
2. Daily Assignments
3. Special Projects
4. On going assessments: quizzes, tests, and Math Concept Application Probes
Phone: 320-629-4124
E-mail: [email protected]
Length: Full year course
Credit: One Credit per year
Course Description
Life Skills Math is designed to build a students consumer skills for independent living. The focus of the course is to help students apply math concepts that they will use in real life situations at school, home and one the job. Students will review basic math concepts such as whole number operations, decimals, fractions, percentages, and ratios. Students will apply those basic math skills to real life situations such as earning money, managing money, using credit wisely, and comparison shopping. Students will also work on building vocabulary related to consumer topics covered in this course. This course is intended to be a full year course; however, students can earn 1/2 credit for each semester completed.
Major Topics Covered
1. Earning Money
2. Place Value
3. Whole Number Operations
4. Using Decimals
5. Using Percents
6. Estimating and Counting Money
7. Elapsed Time
8. Banking Services
9. Using a Checking Account
10. Budgeting
11. Using Credit Wisely
12. Protection against Identity Theft
13. Comparison Shopping
14. Using Fractions
15. Using Ratios
16. Using Proportions
17. Measurement
18. Basic Geometry
19. Basic Insurance Needs
20. Traveling
Major Learner Outcomes
Students will:
1. Round, estimate, and count money.
2. Measure elapsed time to compute wages earned.
3. Use percent to compute sales tax, discounts, and sale price.
4. Compute simple and compound interest
5. Identify banking services available.
6. Manage a mock checking account.
7. Complete a budget sheet and set budget goals.
8. Identify ways to manage money responsibly.
9. Gain an understanding of credit and how to use it wisely.
10. Identify ways to protect money and identity.
11. Gain an awareness of cost saving techniques when shopping.
12. Identify resources available to consumers.
13. Use ratios, proportions, and probability as they apply to daily living situations such cooking, reading a scale drawing, and games of chance.
14. Use fractions as they apply to daily living situations such as measurement
15. Identify basic customary and metric measurement including liquid capacity, weight, and length.
16. Apply formulas to compute perimeter, area and volume to basic geometric shaped.
17. Gain an awareness of basic insurance needs for independent living.
18. Identify costs involved with traveling and reading related forms such as maps and bus schedules.
Materials used in class
A variety of materials will be used for this course depending on student needs. Textbooks used are based on standards that correlate to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The following textbooks may be used, in part for this course:
1.Life Skills Math, AGS Publishing
2. Consumer Mathematics, AGS Publishing
3. Mathematics Connections, Glencoe /McGraw-Hill Publishing
4. NEFE High School Financial Planning Program, 2012
5. Passing the Minnesota Basic Standards Test, American Book Company
Materials Students Need To Bring
Students should bring the following materials everyday to class:
1. Pencil
2. Spiral bound notebook
3. Basic Calculator
Evaluation
Students will earn a grade of Pass/Fail. Students need to earn at least 70% of the total points to receive a passing grade. Students will earn points for the following categories:
1. Participation
2. Daily Assignments
3. Special Projects
4. On going assessments: quizzes, tests, and Math Concept Application Probes
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