Consumer Math

Teenage Years

In this module, you will interact with money as a teenage earner and consumer. You can expect to learn how to:

• create and solve expressions and equations related to income
• apply percent calculations to situations involving saving and spending money
• calculate costs related to transportation
• use math practices and skills to make informed consumer decisions

Life After High School

In this module, you will interact with money as an earner and consumer after high school. You can expect to learn how to:

• create and solve expressions and equations related to income
• apply percent calculations to situations involving borrowing and paying back student loans and credit cards
• calculate costs associated with earning potential, education, and credit
• use math practices and skills to make informed consumer decisions

Cost Of Living

In this module, you will interact with money as a young adult earner and consumer. You can expect to learn how to:

• create and solve expressions, equations, and inequalities related to living on your own
• apply percent calculations, pie graphs, and bar graphs to situations involving saving and spending money
• calculate costs related to monthly expenses
• use unit rates, proportions, math practices, and skills to make informed consumer decisions
• create and solve equations to help you save your money effectively

Home Sweet Home

In this module, you will interact with money as an adult earner and consumer. You can expect to learn how to:

• create and solve expressions and equations related to credit scores
• apply math practices, use graphs and equations to determine if renting or buying property is best for you
• calculate costs related to mortgage loans
• use geometric formulas to assess the costs of materials
• use math practices and skills to make informed consumer decisions

Big Spending

In this module, you will interact with money as an adult earner and consumer. You can expect to learn how to:

• create and solve expressions and equations related to starting and growing your own business
• analyze quadratic function graphs and apply percent calculations to situations involving growing your own business
• generate and solve proportions related to temperature, currency, and measurement conversions
• use probability to determine the chances of winning
• create and solve equations and expressions to recognize and avoid financial pitfalls
• use unit rates, proportions, math practices, and skills to make informed consumer decisions
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Retirement

In this module, you will interact with money as a retired earner and consumer. You can expect to learn how to:

• create and solve expressions and equations to determine taxable income
• apply formulas to calculate and understand tax rates
• create and solve expressions and equations to determine total retirement income and income from a pension and Social Security
• calculate costs related to monthly expenses in retirement, including total medical costs
• write linear functions that model the line of best fit on a scatter plot to understand better inflation
• create and solve systems of equations related to savings, distance, and cost comparisons