Ms Brooks Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I would like to improve number sense and consumer math skills before high school. Have you used any great resources to teach this subject? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) These are all middle school level resources: - Middle School Math You Really Need; Math You Really Need (set) - Survival Math Skills - Streck-Vaughn series: Mathematics of Work + 6 other titles - Math in Every Day Life - Math for the World of Work - Checkbook Math - Larry Burkett's Money Matters for Teens - Treasury Direct: Money Math These are all high school level resources: Consumer Math programs (all are 1-year / 1-credit) - Abeka's Consumer Math (Christian) - AGS Consumer Math (Wieser Education -- Pearson published a revised version) (secular) - Alpha Omega Consumer Math (Christian) - Bob Jones Consumer Math (Christian) - Math-U-See Stewardship (Christian) - Walch Publishing: Consumer Math (Power Basics series) (secular) FREE Consumer Math supplemental resources - Math & You (Ron Larson) (secular) -- 1 semester; free text with consumer math topics mixed with other topics - Money Instructor: Spending Money and Consumer Math (lessons) (secular) - Math Central, U Regina CA: grade 10 Consumer Math (projects, problems, etc.) (secular) - Summit High School, Mr. Fisher: Consumer Math & Personal Finance (4 downloadable workbooks) (secular) - IOHS: Weebly: Consumer Math (131-page workbook of consumer math -- exercise sets only) (secular) - Beatrice Schools: Consumer Math (printable worksheets) (secular) ALEKS Business Math - Mathematic Foundations (Whole Numbers, Fractions, Decimals, Solving for the Unknown, Business Statistics) - Percents and Their Applications (Discounts: Trade and Cash, Markups and Markdowns, Payroll, Sales, Excise, and Property Tax, Interest, Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process, Compound Interest and Present Value, Annuities and Sinking Funds, Installment Buying, Rule of 78, and Revolving Charge Credit Cards) - Personal Finance (Banking, Cost of Home Ownership, Life-Fire-Auto Insurance, Stocks-Bonds-Mutual Funds) - Business Finance (How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports, Depreciation, Inventory and Overhead) - Other Topics Available (Chain discounts: Single equivalent discount rate Employer tax responsibilities, Actual sales before taxes, Making partial note payments before due date, Annuity due, Paying off installment loans before due date, Sum-of-the-years'-digits depreciation) Personal Finance Supplements - My Father's World: Personal Finance Elective (uses Money Matters for Teens (Burkett), Money, Possessions & Eternity (Alcorn) and has lesson plans) (Christian) - Dave Ramsey Foundations in Personal Finance (DVD lectures & workbook)- Larry Burkett's Money Matters for Teens FREE Personal Finance resources - The Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future (downloadable, 4 units: Banking, Financing, Investing, Succeeding) - NWT Literacy Council: Money Math (downloadable workbook on Personal Finance, Saving Money, Consumer Math) (secular) - Money Skills (FULL CURRICULUM: online reality-based personal finance high school program) (secular) Edited April 7, 2016 by Lori D. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Simply Charlotte Mason's Your Business Math 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 These are all middle school level resources: - Middle School Math You Really Need; Math You Really Need (set) - Survival Math Skills - Streck-Vaughn series: Mathematics of Work + 6 other titles - Math in Every Day Life - Math for the World of Work - Checkbook Math - Larry Burkett's Money Matters for Teens - Treasury Direct: Money Math These are all high school level resources: Consumer Math programs (all are 1-year / 1-credit) - Abeka's Consumer Math (Christian) - AGS Consumer Math (Wieser Education -- Pearson published a revised version) (secular) - Alpha Omega Consumer Math (Christian) - Bob Jones Consumer Math (Christian) - Math-U-See Stewardship (Christian) - Walch Publishing: Consumer Math (Power Basics series) (secular) FREE Consumer Math supplemental resources - Math & You (Ron Larson) (secular) -- 1 semester; free text with consumer math topics mixed with other topics - Money Instructor: Spending Money and Consumer Math (lessons) (secular) - Math Central, U Regina CA: grade 10 Consumer Math (projects, problems, etc.) (secular) - Summit High School, Mr. Fisher: Consumer Math & Personal Finance (4 downloadable workbooks) (secular) - IOHS: Weebly: Consumer Math (131-page workbook of consumer math -- exercise sets only) (secular) - Beatrice Schools: Consumer Math (printable worksheets) (secular) ALEKS Business Math - Mathematic Foundations (Whole Numbers, Fractions, Decimals, Solving for the Unknown, Business Statistics) - Percents and Their Applications (Discounts: Trade and Cash, Markups and Markdowns, Payroll, Sales, Excise, and Property Tax, Interest, Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process, Compound Interest and Present Value, Annuities and Sinking Funds, Installment Buying, Rule of 78, and Revolving Charge Credit Cards) - Personal Finance (Banking, Cost of Home Ownership, Life-Fire-Auto Insurance, Stocks-Bonds-Mutual Funds) - Business Finance (How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports, Depreciation, Inventory and Overhead) - Other Topics Available (Chain discounts: Single equivalent discount rate Employer tax responsibilities, Actual sales before taxes, Making partial note payments before due date, Annuity due, Paying off installment loans before due date, Sum-of-the-years'-digits depreciation) Personal Finance Supplements - My Father's World: Personal Finance Elective (uses Money Matters for Teens (Burkett), Money, Possessions & Eternity (Alcorn) and has lesson plans) (Christian) - Dave Ramsey Foundations in Personal Finance (DVD lectures & workbook) - Larry Burkett's Money Matters for Teens FREE Personal Finance resources - The Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future (downloadable, 4 units: Banking, Financing, Investing, Succeeding) - NWT Literacy Council: Money Math (downloadable workbook on Personal Finance, Saving Money, Consumer Math) (secular) - Money Skills (FULL CURRICULUM: online reality-based personal finance high school program) (secular) Lori I just have to say that you continue to amaze me me with your encyclopedic lists. THX! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Lori I just have to say that you continue to amaze me me with your encyclopedic lists. THX! LOL! Okay, that was just a "cut and paste" list from several previous posts, with a new few additions, so not like it was a new-from-scratch creation… ;) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Brooks Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 Lori D--Amazing list thanks. All of it looks interesting, but this one caught my attention: The Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future (downloadable, 4 units: Banking, Financing, Investing, Succeeding) Many thanks :hurray: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 IOHS link is now: http://www.illinoisonlinehighschool.org/uploads/1/8/6/5/18653164/consumer_math_workbook.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 IOHS link is now: http://www.illinoisonlinehighschool.org/uploads/1/8/6/5/18653164/consumer_math_workbook.pdf Thanks. Fixed it above. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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