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Consumer Math Online First Semester
UNIT 1 – BASIC MATH REVIEW
- Course Overview
- Introduction
- Number Skills
- Signed Numbers and Measurement Scales
- A Consumer Application
- Division Review
- Quiz 1: Basic Operations
- Prime Numbers and Factors
- Factors and Products
- Fractions, LCM, and GCF
- Fractions
- Quiz 2: Fractions
- Adding and Subtracting Fractions
- Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
- Operations with Mixed Numbers
- Consumer Applications
- Quiz 3: Operations With Fractions
- A Ratio Scale, Decimals, and Number Bases
- Operations and Decimals
- Consumer Application, Metrics
- Quiz 4: Decimals
- Percent
- Base, Rate, Percentage
- Problem Solving
- Quiz 5: Percent
- Mental Problem Solving
- Final Review
- Test: Basic Math Review
- Alternate Test: Basic Math Review
- Reference
UNIT 2 – PERSONAL FINANCE
- Money (You will be introduced to concepts in this unit which will draw from your previous learning with applications to areas related to the consumer)
- Finding a Job
- Job Skills: Using Standard Units
- Job Skills: Using Metric Units
- Converting Systems
- Quiz 1: Job Skills
- Part and Full-Time Jobs
- Wages
- Payroll
- Payroll Deductions
- Other Deductions
- Quiz 2: Wages
- Self-Employment: Piecework
- Commission and Tips
- Retirement Planning
- Quiz 3: Other Income
- Story Problems with Review
- Test: Personal Finance
- Alternate Test: Personal Finance
- Reference
UNIT 3 – STATISTICS
- Home Budget
- Organizing Data
- Sets and Probability (I)
- Introduction to Probability
- Conditional Probability – Part 1 – Introduction
- Conditional Probability – Part 2 – Using a table
- Math Lessons & Study Tips : How to Make a Frequency Table
- Conditional Probability (This instructional video goes beyond the concepts covered in the lesson, but may be of interest to some students)
- Sets and Probability (II)
- Representing Data
- Quiz 1: Data
- Preparing a Cash Budget
- Using Records in Planning (This section will rely on your understanding of finding percent of an item. Review as necessary the material presented earlier on percents)
- A Home Business Application
- Quiz 2: Records
- Planning with Measures of Variations
- Using the Standard Normal Distribution
- Z-Scores and the Normal Distribution
- Quiz 3: Measures of Variation
- Sampling and Estimation
- A Balance Sheet
- Quiz 4: Balance Sheet
- Confidence Intervals
- Unit Review
- Test: Statistics
- Alternate Test: Statistics
- Reference
UNIT 4 – TAXES AND INSURANCE
- Life Insurance
- Premiums
- Loans and Cash Value
- Health Insurance
- Project: Insurance
- Other Insurance
- Quiz 1: Insurance
- Taxes: Federal 1040
- 1040EZ Tax Form(With a changing tax code it is likely this form has changed substantially)
- Taxes: FICA
- Taxes: State
- Quiz 2: Withholding
- Taxes: Local
- Taxes: Other
- Quiz 3: Taxes
- Review
- Test: Taxes and Insurance
- Alternate Test: Taxes and Insurance
- Reference
UNIT 5 – BANKING SERVICES AND INVESTMENTS
- Selecting a Bank
- Checking Accounts
- Savings Accounts
- Quiz 1: Accounts
- Reconciling Statements
- ATM’S
- Simple and Compound Interest
- Other Services
- Quiz 2: Services
- Financial Planning
- Stocks
- What it means to buy a company’s stock
- Bonds vs. stocks
- Bonds
- Mutual Funds
- Quiz 3: Investments
- Wills and Estates
- Project: Wills
- Distributing an Estate
- Quiz 4: Estate Planning
- Review
- Test: Banking Services and Investments
- Alternate Test: Banking Services and Investments
- Reference