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This is a worksheet packet that teaches students the choices involved when renting an apartment. In this packet, the students have to calculate their monthy income based on their listed weekly income. They will also figure out the cost of living in 5 different apartment choices based on rent, transportation, utilities, and expenses. The apartment choices are included with this packet, as well! They will complete two worksheets (A and B) that are included with this purchase. Worksheet A is a mat

This is a family vacation budgeting project that was created for a Consumer Math class, but it can be used for all math classes. This project allows students to work in groups while researching various travel sites on the internet. This project also teaches students about time zones, the current cost of gas and plane tickets, and the costs of dining out on vacation vs grocery shopping and cooking. It also touches on the costs of entertainment while on vacation. This project also allows for a dis

This is an entertaining and enjoyable project where the students get to design a neighborhood of their own! It allows them to use their creativity all while practicing mathematical skills in the areas of perimeter, area, and circumference. Included in this project packet are detailed instructions, a grading rubric where the points for each section are broken down with a place for teacher's comments, along with a formula page for review and reference! This is a 100 point project!

Idioms can be extremely difficult for students to understand, especially those students with special needs! Many of my students with Autism take idioms literally and need further explanation as to what the phrases mean. Included in this packet: * Worksheet with over 30 idioms where the students are to write what they think the meaning is, the true definition provided by the teacher, and a space to write a sentence using the idiom correctly **Answer key with the meaning of the all of the listed i

This worksheet focuses on the concept of buying products on layaway. It describes what it means for something to be put away on layway, asks students to calculate the down payments needed based on a given percentage, and also asks the students what the remainder due would be on the product they are purchasing. This worksheet includes practice with percentages, decimals, fractions, and subtraction. This is an excellent worksheet to prepare for the holidays, however, it can be mentioned that consu

It's that time of year, tax time!! This is a lesson on paying taxes. There are questions such as when are taxes due each year and name two different ways you can pay taxes (online and through the mail). The students are given two different people who have the same paycheck, but get different taxes withheld each paycheck. The students must figure out the take-home pay of each person/family. One person is single and one person has a wife and three kids. There are also discussion questions at the

This is a packet to be used with elemetary aged students or with students with special needs. This can also be used in a communication class or a speech therapy setting. This packet includes: 3 worksheets 1 writing the letter of the matching word and situation (words) (middle) 1 matching (pictures and situations) (low) (The above are the same situations, but one with words matching and one with picture matching.) 1 writing the emotion name and coming up with a situation (high) (Worksheets can be

This is an activity that gives students the opportunity to use a newspaper to locate real-world decimals. It give students practice in rounding decimals to tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and ten thousandths. It also involves practice in lining up decimal points to add numbers with decimals together. Since this activity involves cutting and pasting, fine motor skills are also touched upon. This activity can be used in a special needs classroom or at the elementary level. There are suggestions

This activity allows the students to take a trip outdoors to explore the perimeters of different items. Students will need to find five objects in which they are to find the perimeter. This also allows them to practice their fine motor skills as they will need to sketch a smaller version of their object. This activity touches on shape recognition, as well. The students will be measuring in inches so it's also a great lesson in which teachers can re-introduce measuring with a ruler!!