1. Who Gets How Much? How can we use proportions to investigate poverty in the world?

2. Objectives Students will be able to determine the percent wealth and population of various geographic regions by using proportions Students will be able to determine which regions are more or less wealthy by comparing the wealth and population

4. 1.How many people do you think are living on this planet? 2.How much wealth do you think the people of the world have all together? 3.Which region(s) do you think are the richest? Which region(s) do you think are the poorest? What Do You Think?

5. India

10. Guatemala

14. United States

19. South Africa

23. England

27. Is Wealth Equally Distributed? How do we define wealth? –The Gross Domestic Product (GDP): how much money the region spends How do we compare the regions? How do we know which region is more wealthy?

28. World Population & Wealth ABCDEFGHI Geographic Region Population% of World Pop. Our class has _______ Wealth (GDP)% of World GDP # of Treats out of ____ Africa934,000,0002,092,000,000,000 Asia4,001,000,00021,504,000,000,000 Oceania34,000,000737,000,000,000 Europe730,000,00014,244,000,000,000 U.S. and Canada 335,000,00012,776,000,000,000 Latin America 568,000,0004,300,000,000,000 TOTAL6,602,000,000100 %55,653,000,000,000100 %

29. Exit Slip – Day 1 Think about what regions you thought were wealthy and poor at first, and what you understand now. How did mathematics help us understand which regions were rich and which were poor?

33. http://www.jcrs.com/newsletters/2003/images/WorldDiamondMap.jpg

34. http://earthtrends.wri.org/images/pop_fea_dimofpov_fig4.jpg Percent of People Living on Less than $2 a day

35. http://static.seekingalpha.com/wp- content/seekingalpha/images/Gdp_nominal_2005_world_map.PNG