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Grade Point Average -- Middle & High School - 21st Century Math Project

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Clark Creative Math
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Grade Levels
6th - 12th
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This lesson was really helpful to get my students to understand how their grades are calculated. Students always ask me to calculate their GPA if they got this grade or that grade. Now they can figure it out themselves.
I used this as a refresher for 7th-graders to review how to calculate GPA. It was nice to not have to come up with scenarios and create a worksheet of my own.
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Description

It’s Friday. The Friday. The Friday that signals the end of the grading period. Students dig deep in their backpacks, bake a dozen cookies to schmooze a teacher and turn in as many missing assignments as possible before the final bell. The Honor Roll, the basketball team, and everyone’s cell phone privileges are decided on this day. As important as it is, some students are not sure how to calculate their GPA.

This pains the soul of the math teacher. In this project, students are not just asked to calculate a simple GPA. They are assess the goals of fictional students and determine the grades they will need to reach them. This allows students to solve basic equations and use simple formulas. Content-wise this can be a perfect fit at the end of the first quarter of an Algebra class. However the usefulness of the assignment could assist students at all levels.

In creating the assignment, I have not used weighted grades (colleges don't either!) and I have used 90-100 A, 80-89.999 B... grading scale.

In this 18 page document you will be given a mapping to the Content Standards, an outline for how to implement the project, handout resources for students to use, and an answer key. ***THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH A GOOGLE SLIDES INTERACTIVE VERSION INCLUDED. REDOWNLOAD IF YOU HAVE IT ALREADY***


In all it is three different assignments --

-- In “Grade Point Average” students use report card data to calculate GPAs and determine what grades students need to meet their goals.

-- In “The Hypothetical Game” students will determine the difference between boosting those percentages up in the last week of the quarter. What impact will it have on their overall GPA? Students will find out.

-- In “The Transcript” students learn the difference between an “Academic” GPA and the GPA that appears on their transcript. Students will set goals for the senior years of four different characters to help them achieve their goals. Unless it’s too late.

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Total Pages
18 pages
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Teaching Duration
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Evaluate expressions at specific values of their variables. Include expressions that arise from formulas used in real-world problems. Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole-number exponents, in the conventional order when there are no parentheses to specify a particular order (Order of Operations). For example, use the formulas V = s³ and A = 6 s² to find the volume and surface area of a cube with sides of length s = 1/2.
Solve linear equations in one variable.
Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.

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