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Martinez Money Math: Business Math Class for Middle School Kids Flex

In this 8-week flex course, students will use Nearpod and Escape Rooms to learn about various business math topics through videos, articles, fun interactive activities, and an exit ticket at the end of each lesson.
Brooke Martinez
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(37)
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In this 8-week flex course, students will use Nearpod and Escape Rooms to learn about various business math topics through videos, articles, fun interactive activities, and an exit ticket at the end of each lesson. There will be 5 lessons per week and I will release a new lesson link each day. This course will be filled with hands-on learning!  My course is a great way to prepare students for the math behind businesses! 

Many learners start with little knowledge about business operations.  After the course, they will grow to enjoy learning about businesses and will be much more confident in business math!

This course will include videos, articles, interactive activities, projects, and an exit ticket for each lesson.  I'm a firm believer in creating engaging learning experiences.  I'm excited to begin a journey of discovering business math with your learner!

Students will be able to interact with each other on the Outschool platform. Students will work together to complete various escape rooms and solve formulas. 

This is a FLEX course, which means that there are no live meetings, but I will still be interacting frequently with students electronically and ask that they interact with each other as they are comfortable. We will interact using the classroom page and using Nearpod, a collaboration website that is fun, easy to use, and requires no email login information.

A Nearpod will be provided every week with my voice as an audio guide. There will be multiple interactive activities throughout the lesson so students can synthesize what they are learning and keep track of it. I will ask students to share their work with me and/or the class and give them feedback on this work. I will pose a weekly discussion question for students to answer in the classroom or Nearpod via video, picture, or chat and I will ask that classmates respond to each other's submissions. There will also be a review quiz after each lesson on Nearpod as a check for understanding.

Agenda:
Week 1: Personnel
*Hiring New Employees
*Administering Wages & Salaries
*Employee Benefits
*Disability Insurance
*Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Week 2: Purchasing and Inventory
*Trade Discounts
*Chain Discounts
*Cash Discounts
*Inventory
*Valuing & Carrying Inventory
Week 3: Sales
*Markup
*Net Profit
*Selling Price
*Markup Rate Based on Cost
*Markdown
Week 4: Marketing
*Sales Potential
*Market Share
*Sales Projections
*Advertising Costs
*Pricing
Week 5: Services
*Building Rental
*Maintenance and Improvement
*Equipment Rental
*Utilities Cost
*Professional Services
Week 6: Accounting 1
*Payroll Register
*Business Expenses
*Manufacturing Costs and Time
*Break-Even Analysis
*Depreciation
Week 7: Accounting 2
*Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System
*Assets, Liabilities, and Equity
*Balance Sheet
*Cost of Goods Sold
*Income Statement
Week 8: Financial Management
*Corporate Income Taxes
*Issuing Stocks & Bonds
*Borrowing
*Investments & Inflation
*Gross Domestic Product (GDP) & Consumer Price Index

Learning Goals

Week 1: Personnel
*Calculate the cost of recruiting new employees
*Calculate the new salary after merit increase and cost-of-living adjustment
*Calculate the rate of employee benefits based on annual gross pay
*Determine disability benefits under independent retirement systems and under Social Security
*Compute the employer cost for workers’ compensation insurance
Week 2: Purchasing and Inventory
*Compute the trade discount, the net price, and the trade-discount rate
*Calculate the net price using the complement method
*Compute the cash price when the discount is based on ordinary dating
*Calculate inventory
*Use the average-cost, FIFO, and LIFO methods to compute inventory value
*Calculate the annual cost of carrying inventory
Week 3: Sales
*Compute the markup in dollars
*Calculate the markup as a percent of the selling price
*Determine the net profit in dollars
*Calculate the selling price of an item based on cost and markup rate based on selling price
*Calculate the markdown in dollars and as a percent of the regular selling price
Week 4: Marketing
*Determine the annual sales potential of a new product
*Calculate the market share of a new product
*Use the factor method or a graph to determine projected sales
*Calculate the cost of advertising
*Calculate the selling price that will result in the highest possible net profit
Week 5: Services
*Compute the monthly rental charge
*Calculate the total building maintenance charge
*Determine the total equipment rental cost
*Calculate the monthly utility costs
*Calculate the total cost of professional services
Week 6: Accounting 1
*Complete a payroll register
*Calculate the percent that a particular business expense is of the total expenses
*Compute the prime cost of manufacturing an item and use time study results to compute how many units can be produced
*Calculate the break-even point in the number of manufactured units
*Use the straight-line method to compute the annual depreciation of an item
Week 7: Accounting 2
*Use the modified accelerated cost recovery system to compute the annual depreciation and book value
*Compute the total assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity
*Create a balance sheet
*Determine the cost of goods sold
*Complete an income statement
Week 8: Financial Management
*Compute the taxable income and the corporate income tax
*Calculate the selling expenses and the net proceeds from an issue of stocks or bonds
*Determine the maturity value of a commercial loan
*Determine the cost and yield of a Treasury bill
*Compute the inflation rate, the current price, and the original price
*Explain the compute the gross domestic product
*Calculate the consumer price index, the current cost, and the cost of any given commodity
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Joined March, 2021
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Utah Teaching Certificate in Secondary Education
Hi! I'm Dr. Brooke. I'm from Utah (United States). I teach business classes both face to face and online. I've been teaching Financial Literacy, Marketing, and Business Classes for 15 years. I have a Bachelors degree in Marketing and Business Education and a minor in Physical Education, a Masters degree in Business Administration, and a Ph.D. (doctorate) in Online Education. I love teaching online! Utah was the first state in the United States to require Financial Literacy to graduate high school and I was in the group of teachers who created the financial literacy endorsement for teachers. I also taught the course on how to be a financial literacy teacher for seven years. Financial Literacy is my passion and I am working with a non-profit to advocate for this course to be available to every student in America. I have a super cute Shar Pei and English Bulldog and I love to golf and binge TV shows. If you're currently watching something fun I'd love to hear about it!

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8 weeks
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Ages: 10-13

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