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We feel that our students need help with personal finance. For example, they can buy a bag of chips and soda every day at lunch, but cannot "afford" to bring a pencil and paper to school. Therefore, we intend to use this real world application as an opportunity to teach and reinforce the skills related to the KCK standard we have chosen: Understand, explain and use equivalent representations for rational numbers and simple algebraic expressions including integers, fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios in real world settings (M7.1.1.1). Although this is a 7th grade standard, this could also be adapted to introduce similar standards in 6th and to reinforce these standards in 8th grade.

To implement this program we have chosen a curriculum developed by Cherry Lake Publishing entitled __Real World Math: Personal Finance__. The focus of this series is age-appropriate math skills that apply to personal finances. Students' math achievement improves while at the same time they are learning learning responsible financial habits. Built into the curriculum are the required standards as well as real world challenges that will allow the students to work together to problem solve and use critical thinking skills.

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