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Friday, December 8, 2017

Personal Financial Literacy: Santa's Gross and Net Incomes

Bell Ringer:

I have decided to review our Middle of Year STAAR Benchmark using Kahoot.  Each day, I have 4 questions from the benchmark, students post the answers, and we discuss why problems were answered incorrectly.

Lesson Frame:

Over the last two days, we have worked on finding Santa's gross income and net income.


Lesson:

On Thursday, I shared a blank paystub with each student through Google Classroom in order for them to practice working with a Sheet.


Next, we used task cards to determine Santa's gross income:



Today, we used the gross (monthly) income and the gross (yearly) income and using the taxes and deductions, we found Santa's net income.



From here, I had students complete a Student Feedback Survey from this activity.  It included questions that required them to explain what they have learned from this activity.  They were to use the vocabulary we have worked with over the past few days:  income, gross income, net income, payroll taxes, and income tax.



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