1. A Monthly Budget Ashley Cornelius EDSC 304 Ashley Cornelius EDSC 304

2. Unit Summary  In pairs, student will research certain aspects of adult life to determines job pay and costs of living. Students will then create a budget based on the information they have found to determine if their professions will pay for their desired lifestyles.

3. Content Standards  1.4 Calculate given percentages of quantities and solve problems involving discounts at sales, interest earned, and tips.  2.3 Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems, including those arising in concrete situations that use positive and negative integers and combinations of these operations.  1.4 Calculate given percentages of quantities and solve problems involving discounts at sales, interest earned, and tips.  2.3 Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems, including those arising in concrete situations that use positive and negative integers and combinations of these operations.

4. Unit Objectives  Students will work effectively with a classmate to create a monthly budget.  Students will gather, organize, and process information about professions, housing, and cost of living expenses.  Students will calculate their budget based on the information discovered through their research.  Students will work effectively with a classmate to create a monthly budget.  Students will gather, organize, and process information about professions, housing, and cost of living expenses.  Students will calculate their budget based on the information discovered through their research.

5. Curriculum-Framing Questions  Essential Question: How can math affect our day-to-day lives?  Unit Question: How can calculating percentages make life easier?  Content Question: Living with a budget allows you to not exceed spending what percentage of your income?  Essential Question: How can math affect our day-to-day lives?  Unit Question: How can calculating percentages make life easier?  Content Question: Living with a budget allows you to not exceed spending what percentage of your income?

6. Assessment to Gauge Student Needs  Think-Pair-Share:  This assessment asks students to first think about questions, then to pair with someone and verbally share their response, and finally to summarize their ideas for the benefit of the entire class.  This helps students organize prior knowledge and brainstorm questions.  Think-Pair-Share:  This assessment asks students to first think about questions, then to pair with someone and verbally share their response, and finally to summarize their ideas for the benefit of the entire class.  This helps students organize prior knowledge and brainstorm questions.

7. Why Projects?  Project- based learning is a hands on approach to learning math that allows the students to gain skills that will help them in their future careers and education.  Benefits of Project-based Learning:  Students interest in the subject increases  Students attitudes towards learning and school improve.  Students gain a deeper understanding of the subject matter.  Project- based learning is a hands on approach to learning math that allows the students to gain skills that will help them in their future careers and education.  Benefits of Project-based Learning:  Students interest in the subject increases  Students attitudes towards learning and school improve.  Students gain a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

8. Project Summary  Students will research professions, housing, and costs of living in order to create a monthly budget based on the profession the student chooses. They will then have to figure out how much they can spend on housing, cars, clothing, food, entertainment and all that jazz. This project will have the students making as accurate a budget as they can with information found from their research.