Student groups will work as travel agents to research, calculate, and compare the costs of driving or flying to various destinations using number operations.
7th GRADE
Student groups will use rational number operations to calculate the cost of a road trip to a national park and determine the percent change in gas prices and park attendance.
8th GRADE
Students win a vacation voucher and plan a trip by applying discount options. After planning, they will explore the effect of linear relationships and determine the vacation voucher they want to redeem.
ALGEBRA 1
Students will use linear relationships to plan a vacation using a sponsorship budget and represent linear relationships with equations, tables, and graphs.
Student groups will research and compare the annual salaries of various careers requiring different levels of education and the effect of lifetime income by hosting a career fair.
7th GRADE
Student groups will apply concepts of personal budgets and minimum household budgets and calculate percentages to aid clients in finding their ideal home location.
8th GRADE
Students will research and estimate the cost of college and develop a plan to save for college expenses.
ALGEBRA 1
Students will analyze a real-world data set to determine the type of function that provides a reasonable fit, write a function to represent the data, and use the function to make predictions.