Seventh Grade - Mathematics

 

Activities


Stock Purchases and Commission

Financial and Economic Concepts: Savings and Financial Investments

Seventh Grade – CCSS Mathematics Grade 7, Ratios & Proportional Relationships
Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

3. Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.

This short lesson teaches students how to find commission on stock purchases. The lesson includes a power point presentation as well as worksheets and answer keys.

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Price-Earnings Ratio

Financial and Economic Concepts: Savings and Financial Investments

Seventh Grade – CCSS Mathematics Grade 7, Ratios & Proportional Relationships
Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

2. Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
3. Use proportional relationships to solve multi-step ratio and percent problems.  
Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.

This lesson focuses on a real-life business application of ratios - the price to earnings ratio used when looking at stocks. The lesson contains a power point presentation, as well as a worksheet and answer key.

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Planning the Prom

Financial and Economic Concepts: Economic Reasoning

Seventh Grade – CCSS Mathematics Grade 7, The Number System
Apply and extend previous understanding of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers.

3. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

The lesson plan contains a two day activity where students are divided into groups and they can plan their hypothetical prom.  Graphs and data can be compared on a class level.

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