Real-Life Math: The Math You Need (Consumer and Applied Math)
In this course, students will study and review arithmetic skills they can apply in their personal lives, future careers, and in making wise consumer decisions.
Cynthia Dise
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4.9
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What's included
1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hours per weekHomework
1-2 hours per week. Students will be assigned work to give them practice with the concepts we cover in class.Class Experience
US Grade 9 - 12
In this course, students will study and review arithmetic skills they can apply in their personal lives, future careers, and in making wise consumer decisions. This class begins with a review of percentages, ratios, and averages before moving on to occupational topics; it includes details on jobs, wages, and taxes. Then we will go into budgeting, cash purchases buying cars and houses, credit cards, and much more. Students will complete activities such as balancing a checking account, planning a road trip, calculating gas mileage, calculating the amount of paint needed to paint a room, and filling out a tax form. Students will be provided with notes pages they should have printed out in preparation for class. Topics: An overview of averages, percentages, and ratios Wages (Hourly and salaried, Timecards, Overtime, and Deductions) Taxes Banking Budgets (monthly, utilities) Groceries (Meal planning, Unit prices) Shopping (Dining Out, Tipping, Discounts) Home Improvements (Painting, Carpeting, Gardening, Fences) Traveling (Distances, Gas Mileage, Planning a trip) Loans
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Please be sure students are logged into or can log into Google Drive. They do not need their own account but need to be logged in to access and edit the Google files I will share with them during class.
Supply List
Printed note pages for class Calculator (can be one on a phone or computer). Plus if it can handle parenthesis and %, but does not need to be a scientific or graphing calculator.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Joined November, 2022
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Master's Degree in Education from Strayer University
I have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Education, focusing on Instructional Technologies. I was a software engineer before I started homeschooling my kids.
I have 14+ years of experience teaching in-person classes and 3+ years teaching online. I have focused on STEM classes such as science, coding, math (pre-algebra, algebra 1 & 2, geometry, applied math), and engineering for high school students for the last eight years.Reviews
Live Group Class
$15
weekly1x per week
45 min
Completed by 14 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 14-18
3-12 learners per class
