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Math Skills for Everyday Life

Math Skills for Everyday Life. Money Management. Money management is an important part of everyone's life. There are many decisions to be made about how to make money, spend money and (hopefully) save some of it too.

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Math Skills for Everyday Life

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  1. Math Skills for Everyday Life

  2. Money Management Money management is an important part of everyone's life. There are many decisions to be made about how to make money, spend money and (hopefully) save some of it too. Determining how much money you will need for a purchase requires many skills such as: • Making sure you have enough money; • Knowing how much money you should hand over; • Knowing how much change you should get back.

  3. Money Management • There are also many ways to complete financial transactions besides cash, such as banking cards (also called debit cards), credit cards and checks. If you have a part-time job or receive an allowance, you will have an income to control. One way to do this is to keep track of how you spend your money for one week.

  4. Management Table What are the common categories for the expenses in your spending diary?How much did you spend in each category? *Allowance Activity

  5. Fuel Economy • Complete the exercise

  6. Interpreting Charts and Graphs • http://www.tv411.org/reading/understanding-what-you-read/reading-charts-and-graphs • What are three things you learned from this lesson? What are two ways you can apply it to everyday life?

  7. Strategies for Completing Equations • To ensure you are completing an equation correctly, you can use an acronym to do the calculating in the proper order: • Perform operations that are inside Brackets or parentheses; • Perform any powers or Exponentiations next (like 2 3); • Division; • Multiplication; • Addition; • Subtraction. • Some people remember this as BEDMAS!

  8. ( 3 x 2 ) + 10 - 8 = ?

  9. Problem Solving Strategies Here are some common problem-solving strategies for mathematics: • Look for a pattern; • Construct a table; • Make an organized list; • Act it out; • Draw a picture; • Use real objects; • Guess and check; • Work backwards; • Write an equation; • Solve a simpler (or similar) problem; • Make a model. *Knots

  10. Work through it

  11. Math Jeopardy • https://download.elearningontario.ca/repository/1107570000/GLS1OPU1/GLS1OPU1A4/mme/mme1/qsc.html

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