CreativeMathLessons

Are your students bored to tears with state assessments, math drills and dull text books? Are you bored to tears teaching the same proportion lesson over and over again just to hear them say "When are we ever going to use this?!" I created this lesson/worksheet to integrate a real life skill. I love to travel and thought this would be a great way to relate it to math. While this assignment meets typical state and local standards for "applying ratios and proportions to real life problems" it

Are you looking for ways to relate real world concepts to your curriculum? Often students will work harder on a topic when they find that it is relevant. I created this very basic table for students to fill in using the percent change equation. Using the inflation calculator from the Bureau of Labor and statistics (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl) I listed the comparative costs of goods in different decades. Students will compare each decade on the chart and determine if there was a p