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Real-World Financial Literacy Project | 7th Grade Math PBL | End of Year Project

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Great project for my 7th graders at the end of the year. Real-life scenario makes it engaging. Easy to prep. Will use again.
My kids LOVED this project. It was so applicable to the real world and easy to facilitate. I will be using this every year as an end of year project!

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In this flexible 3-6 day Financial Literacy 7th Grade Project, students will apply concepts of personal budgets and minimum household budgets to research cost of living for remote working clients in various cities.

Standards: CCSS (MP1, MP4, 7.RP.3) and TEKS (7.13B, 7.13D)

Concepts Included in this 7th Grade End of Year Math Project:

  • calculating percents
  • personal budgets and minimum household budgets

Students will take on the role of an employee working for “Remote Possibilities”,  a company that helps clients who work remotely to determine the best location to live based on the client’s income, financial goals, and lifestyle desires. Students will understand and apply concepts of personal budgets and minimum household budgets. Students will also practice calculating percents.

This Real-World Financial Literacy 7th Grade Project is intended to provide engaging opportunities for extension and application of skills. It can serve as an assessment of students’ understanding while encouraging inquiry and critical thinking among students. This End of Year Math Project is the perfect way to conclude the year in 7th grade!

This project is flexible in nature and includes teaching slides, warm-ups, exit tickets, student recording sheets and a project overview to help you structure class time and implement project components as smoothly as possible.

More details on what is included:

  • Teaching Slides – display the material in class
  • Warm-ups – provide a quick review on the math content needed to complete the project
  • Exit Tickets – check for content understanding
  • Student Recording Sheets – students can show their research steps and calculations
  • Project Overview – detailed directions for ease of use, teacher lesson plans for each stage of the project
  • Grading Rubric – streamline the grading process

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Materials and Time Requirement:

  • This Financial Literacy 7th Grade Project can be completed within 3-6 class days. Students will need access to a computer and internet to research city recommendations and create a portfolio for their client.

7th Grade Activity Bundles:

Unit 1: Numbers and Operations

Unit 2: Equations and Inequalities

Unit 3: Proportionality

Unit 4: Linear Relationships

Unit 5: Plane Geometry and Similarity

Unit 6: Surface Area

Unit 7: Volume

Unit 8: Probability

Unit 9: Data and Statistics

Unit 10: Personal Financial Literacy

More 7th Grade TEKS-Aligned Units:

Unit 1: Numbers and Operations

Unit 2: Equations and Inequalities

Unit 3: Proportionality

Unit 4: Linear Relationships

Unit 5: Plane Geometry and Similarity

Unit 6: Surface Area

Unit 7: Volume

Unit 8: Probability

Unit 9: Data and Statistics

Unit 10: Personal Financial Literacy

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Standards

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Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.
Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.

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