Beth Bauman

This is the project I end our Financial Literacy course with each year. After studying the factors that go into purchasing a house, students are given this PowerPoint document to lead them through their own simulation of finding and purchasing a home. Students must decide what is important to them in purchasing a home, work within a provided budget, and find an actual home for sale that best fits their values. This PowerPoint walks students through identifying the many key costs that purchasi

This is an assessment I use in my high school geometry class. I use this right after we finish our unit covering the properties of various quadrilaterals and parallelograms. The assessment has several scenarios that happen in this theoretical amusement park. The students must perform calculations and use known properties/concepts to determine if park rides are safe to operate. It's a fun real-world application and could easily be used as just an in-class activity as well. This document is a wor

I use this project after studying the factors that go into purchasing your first car, including cost, interest, new vs. used, loans, etc. This project also provides all the internet links that I have pre-approved for my students to use while doing this project. This provides structure to lead students to be successful in their research. The activities I do to study these factors is also for sale as "The True Cost of Cars" at my TpT store. To view these Click Here I usually upload this to goog

This is an assessment I use in my high school geometry class. I use this right after we finish our unit about trigonometry, including sine, cosine, tangent, law of sines, and law of cosines. The assessment has a couple scenarios that happen with this theoretical viking ship. The students must perform calculations and use known properties/concepts help solve problems such as finding the ship's location relative to other objects at sea. It's a fun real-world application and could easily be used as

This project teaches students how to assess and create a budget for a theoretical person's expenditures. The setup document breaks down the materials that will be needed and some details of the 7 different theoretical people. I used an envelope for each theoretical person, printed the bill amounts specified in the setup document, and several receipts that I collected from myself and colleagues. The My Budget powerpoint leads students through the process of analyzing their theoretical person'

This is a simple inquiry for students to recall and/or discover the definition of vertical, complementary, and supplementary angles. Vocabulary words are listed at the top of the worksheet. As a class I define these vocabulary words and we record the definitions together. I usually try to see what students already know and create definitions using some of the wording the students used to give them a feeling of ownership and choice in the classroom. When defining the words I simply define how to

This is an activity that I use to teach students about renting and moving expenses. The documents are scaffolded notes to engage students in educational short videos exploring these concepts. The videos are free online and linked to the documents. I use these to help prepare students for their upcoming project, "Buying a Home." To view the project Click Here

I do these activities with students to prepare for their "My First Car Project." You can also find the "My First Car Project" available for sale in my TpT store as well. To view the project Click Here There are two free videos online that do a great job explaining all the big concepts and factors that go into purchasing a car. The videos are linked to the documents. These documents are guided notes to engage students with the videos and foster rich educational discussions afterwards. Students