Here you'll find ideas and materials for teaching a high school consumer math course, including a big bundle of consumer math activities, a financial literacy word wall, and a complete consumer math curriculum.
This comprehensive, real-world consumer math curriculum will make teaching the course easy and fun with everything ready to go. It includes a printable student book, student notebook sheets or workbook (both formats are included), a teacher's book, PowerPoint notes, editable quizzes, warm-ups, a curriculum map and all answer keys. The income taxes unit is updated every January with free re-downloads.
The 18-unit curriculum covers wants vs. needs, checks and registers, wages and salary, bank accounts, budgeting, credit cards, credit score, discounts and coupons, sales tax and tip, percent change, unit prices, income taxes, car loans, mortgages, student loans, investing, car insurance, and health insurance. Code SAVE20 takes 20% off.
This financial literacy word wall includes visuals of all the math vocabulary your students will learn in their consumer math class. Some teachers display all of the pieces at once, while other teachers choose to display current topics and swap them out throughout the year.
The word wall comes in printable color, printable black and white, and no-prep digital in Google Slides all in the same file.
This big consumer math activities bundle includes engaging printable and digital activities that build personal financial literacy skills.
Fun activities for teaching teens financial literacy - This packed blog post includes links to printable and digital activities for building financial literacy.
Teaching teens how to file a 1040 tax return - This post shares a 1040 cheat sheet and links to a set of task cards that teach students how to file federal income taxes. Both are updated every year.
There are 576 possible career-home-car-habit combinations in this budget project as students mix and match their choices and calculate their budgets.
There is a free set of unit price task cards in my blog's free math resource library.
Do your students need practice making change and counting money? This new set of making change task cards asks students to calculate the amount of change owed, and then find the number of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies needed to make the change.
In this car buying project, students learn about the costs associated with buying and owning their own car. Students choose a car from 6 choices, and a bank loan from 4 choices, and calculate all costs.
