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Who Gets How Much?

Who Gets How Much?. How can we use proportions to investigate poverty in the world?. Objectives. Students will be able to determine the percent wealth and population of various geographic regions by using proportions

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Who Gets How Much?

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  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

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

  4. India

  5. India

  6. India

  7. India

  8. India

  9. Guatemala

  10. Guatemala

  11. Guatemala

  12. Guatemala

  13. United States

  14. United States

  15. United States

  16. United States

  17. United States

  18. South Africa

  19. South Africa

  20. South Africa

  21. South Africa

  22. England

  23. England

  24. England

  25. England

  26. 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?

  27. World Population & Wealth

  28. 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?

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

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

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

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