Integrated Math III · Week 34 · Modeling Project and Capstone
Budgeting My First Year
Building a realistic first year budget with constraints.
- Students will
- Students write an equation and inequality for a first year budget with a savings constraint and decide if the budget works.
- SEL skill
- Notice feelings about money and use them to build a careful plan
- What it looks like
- Students use their emotions about money to make a careful plan.
- Content focus
- Writing and solving inequalities for a budget
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Responsible decision-making
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What you get
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Standards
- A-CED.3: High School Algebra: Creating Equations, standard 3
- Standard for Mathematical Practice: MP4 Model with mathematics
- CA Mathematics Framework (2023): Taking Wholes Apart, Putting Parts Together
- Traditional course: Algebra II
Fits these textbook chapters
- CCSS Integrated Pathway Mathematics III, Unit 4B: Mathematical Modeling and Choosing a Model
- CPM Core Connections Integrated III, Chapter 3: Solving and Inequalities
- Savvas enVision Integrated Mathematics III, Topic 1: Linear Functions and Systems
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