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Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, United States
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I am a retired math teacher having taught 37 years at the high school level in New Jersey. I have also been an adjunct instructor at a Community College teaching mathematics, basic skills, and statistics.
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Everyday Life Skills Math Series Bundle.
Teach each student the basic life skill techniques using this bundled activity package Get the entire “Everyday Life Skills” series for a just $15.00. That’s a savings of $6.00 off the individual product price. That’s right, all seven packets for just about the price of 5. The application of mathematics has always been the “when will I ever use this in real life” attitude from students. Each activity is designed for middle school, junior high school, and beyond classrooms introducing or revi
4th - 11th, Adult Education
Applied Math
Task Cards Reading Graphs: Line Graphs, Bar Graphs, and Pie Chart: Revised
40 Task Cards. Teach your students how to read and interpret a line graph, bar graph, or pie chart from a word problem or given data. Challenge your students to think more critically and become better mathematicians. Start your students on their
way to becoming better problem graphic interpreters.
A teachers guide entitled “Learn to Read Graphs” is included. An answer guide for each activity is also provided.
Some common core standards met by this activity will be:
CCSS.Math.
3rd - 9th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Graphing
CCSS
3.MD.D.8
, 4.G.A.3
Managing Your Checking Account using a Debit Card
Everyday people go to stores or eateries to buy something. When they pay for their items, they will have to decide whether to pay in cash, credit card, write a check, or use a debit card. This set of activities will show your student how to write checks and keep a running balance in their register. The “OOPS” factor of I have still have checks therefore my account can not be overdrawn or without money will not occur. The student will be shown the responsible way to keep track of their p
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Applied Math, Basic Operations
CCSS
MP2
Checking Accounts: Everday Life Skills Math Series: Packet Two
In “Earning a Paycheck" part of Everyday Life Skills Math Series, the student was introduced to the job experience and how their employer keeps record of their time worked. Once you start working and receive a paycheck, whether a paper check handed directly to you or directly deposited into a bank account, you will need to have a place to keep your money. You may need to open a bank account as either a savings or checking account. In this packet we will concentrate on a personal checking acco
4th - 11th, Adult Education
Business, Decimals, Fractions
Interpreting Graphs for the Middle & Junior High School: Book 2
Here is another set of data graphics for your students to analyze and interpret. Using survey results from the USA Today newspaper, students will be asked to explain what the graphics are illustrating. Each activity will ask the student to identify basic information presented in each graphic and make some projections based on the data given in the survey. The activities in this packet are a great way to improve your student’s skills in taking apart graphic displays of information. Bring to
4th - 10th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Graphing, Statistics
CCSS
4.MD.A.3
, 4.MD.B.4
Earning a Paycheck: An Everyday Life Skill.
In today’s fast moving and technical world, we have forgotten to instruct our future parents, workers, ordinary citizens about the basics of day to day living. Finding a job, getting a paycheck, opening up a bank or checking account, paying the bills or budgeting, going to restaurants and calculating the tip, buying a home and getting a mortgage are just a few of the everyday experiences our students will meet throughout their lives. Today the classroom educator is compelled to meet Common C
4th - 10th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Business, Fractions
Filing a Federal Tax Return.
It's that wonderful time of the Year "TAX TIME". As you work your way through the “Everyday Life Skills series”, you are ready to embark on this “rite of passage”. Filing a Federal tax return by April 15th each year is expected of ALL working individuals living and working in the United States. This packet will identify terms related to filing a Federal tax return and provide you with the basics of filing your own actual form to receive a refund from the government because you may have ove
8th - 12th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Basic Operations
Planning to Start-up and Run a Business: Everyday Life Skills Series
Hot Off the Presses: The Newest Everyday Life Skills series resource.
Many people dream of opening and running their own business. Running a business brings with it many questions. Things like purchasing items for your business to hiring employees to run the business must be taken into account.
The activities included in this product will take each student through the strategies and mathematical needs to make them a successful business owner. Calculating your monthly rental space cos
4th - 11th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Basic Operations, Business
Tell me a Story using Line Graphs
Teach your students how to write across the curriculum. Want to know what your students are thinking? Here is a set of activities that will do just that. Hand out the graphic picture and the worksheet to each student or as a group assignment and ask them to complete the task. The observer or person looking at the graph is asked to tell a story presented in the graph. This packet gives each student the opportunity to “describe or tell the story” they see. You may then ask them to present th
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Graphing
Comparison Shopping.
How many times have you gone to a store and had to decide which item was the better buy? Your gut may make your choice but common sense and a little mathematical knowledge would make the choice easier. Actually in many stores when you try to read the product label on the shelf, you will find on the label the words “unit price”. In this packet, each student will be asked to look at everyday items that people may purchase and try to determine which situation provides the best price for th
4th - 10th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Business, Decimals
Reading a Pie Chart: Elementary Grades 2 to 4
Teacher’s Choice. Here is an activity to challenge your students into a higher thinking level from the traditional basics. “Reading a Pie Chart” will introduce your student into interpreting graphs using a step by step guide. “Reading a Pie Chart” will present the teacher with an option of introducing their students to interpret these graphs by applying a step by step a power point format or PDF format.
Use the step by step power point guide on a smart board, overhead projection system, or
2nd - 4th
Basic Operations, Graphing
The Basics of Algebra 1: A Survival Guide for Teachers
Do you have to teach some basic Algebra 1 Theory and feel a little overwhelmed? Designed specifically for teachers to help reduce their anxiety when teaching basic Algebraic concepts. So you say that you may be anxious when it comes to teaching Algebra 1 concepts to your students because you haven’t had many math classes and are not a math major. Well here is a resource designed for teachers that is presented in a simplistic manner and will help you get over any possible anxiety. I spent 37
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Algebra
Reading & Writing about Line Graphs
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is a very popular phrase. Interpreting the picture is every individual’s challenge. This activity will teach your student how to read and interpret a line graph. The activities may be used as a group activity with 2 or 3 students working together to answer the questions or individually. The solution to each activity is provided with the student worksheet available to be completed using a computer. I hope that you and your students enjoy this set of activi
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Graphing, Math Test Prep, Other (Math)
CCSS
MP3
, MP4
Interpreting Graphs: Meeting the Common Core: Booklet 3
Want to improve your student’s skills in interpreting graphs. Here is a wonderful set of activities to help your students better analyze graphs. Meet the required Common Core standards with this product. This packet contains 5 activities plus a more advanced graphic to be analyzed. An answer guide is provided to better assist you with each activity. Common core standards include 6.SP.B.4. Some additional activities you may wish to check out: (Just click on the link provided) Title: Task Car
4th - 8th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Graphing, Other (Math)
CCSS
6.SP.B.4
Bundled Reading Graphs
Save $2 off the individual packet price. Teach your students how to read, create, and interpret a line graph, bar graph, or pie chart from a word problem or given data. Challenge your students to think more critically and become better mathematicians. The “How to...” guide is included in this packet. Start your students on their way to becoming better problem graphic interpreters. An answer guide for each activity is provided. Some common core standards met by this activit
2nd - 12th, Adult Education
Graphing, Math Test Prep
Number Sense Bundle
What a Bundle rate!!!! Get 15 activities for the price 9. Looking for some activities for students to start or end the year!!! Here is a teaching strategy and technique that will accomplish your objective. In these activities, the student will explore a problem - solving strategy to strengthen their ability to answer open ended questions. Each activity may be used as a class starter, assigned as a classroom activity followed by a discussion of each student’s response, a homework assignment, or
4th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Basic Operations, Decimals, Fractions
Eating at a Restaurant
Today most people avoid cooking their own meals and find it easier to eat out or order-in. Whatever your decision to dine, it is a nice gesture to leave a tip (money) for your wait staff for service rendered (taking care of you by serving your drinks, meal, and dessert). This set of activities is designed to teach each student how an order is taken by the wait staff from customers, how to calculate the bill to be paid, how to calculate an appropriate tip for service provided as a customer, and
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Arithmetic
CCSS
MP4
, MP5
Reading a Line Graph
Teach your students how to read, create, and interpret a line graph from a word problem or given data. Challenge your students to think more critically and become better mathematicians. The “How to...” guide is included in this packet. Start your students on their way to becoming better problem graphic interpreters. An answer guide for each activity is provided. Some common core standards met by this activity will be: CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.D.10. Solve simple put-together, take
2nd - 4th
Graphing, Math Test Prep
Decimals, Percents, and Their Applications
Everywhere you look you will find decimals. The odometer in the family car measures off miles and tenths of a mile. In a machine shop you use and instrument called a micrometer which measures items in tenths, hundredths, and thousandths of an inch. Batting averages for baseball players are given in decimals. Your body temperature is expressed in whole degrees and tenths of a degree. Measurements in scientific work are given in decimals. But by far the most use you personally make of decimal
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Decimals
Investigating Today's Issues by Applying Math Series: Book One
In 1963 President John F. Kennedy believed enough in his citizens that he proclaimed that America would put a “man on the moon” before the decade (the 60’s) was over. On Wednesday Dec 4, 2013, a newspaper article read “scores in math, reading, and science posted by 15 year olds in the United States were flat while their counterparts elsewhere soared ahead, according to results of a well regarded international exam. While U.S. teenagers scored slightly above in reading, their scores were avera
5th - 10th
Algebra, Other (Math)
CCSS
5.OA.B.3
, 5.G.A.2
, 6.SP.A.1
+4
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About the store
Experience
I am a retired math teacher having taught 37 years at the high school level in New Jersey. I have also been an adjunct instructor at a Community College teaching mathematics, basic skills, and statistics.
Teaching style
I consider my style as teacher generated question oriented. I presented my students with a problem and together we would walk through the steps necessary to arrive at a solution to the problem. I believe that if the student can explain their step by step reasoning to reach the objective, then learning takes place.
I have used the materials that will be presented in TpT with great success. In New Jersey, the student is required to take a High School proficiency test to demonstrate their competency in mathematics. Employing my style in the classroom has permitted 95% or more of my students to pass this test each year. Teachers who have students enrolled in their class state that my former students were well prepared and knowledgeable about the basics they will need to apply in their future classes.
My philosophy was "As a teacher I will provide you with the opportunity to become educated. What you, the student, do with it is up to you."
Awards & shining teacher moments
Author of 4 textbooks. Career mathematician.
My own education history
I have a BA degree in Mathematics and Science education, a Masters of Education degree in Administration and Supervision, and aproximately 20 additional credits in Statistics beyond my Masters degree
Additional biographical information
I enjoyed teaching and working with the students enrolled in my classes both at the high school and community college levels. Watching the "light" bulb go off in each students eyes made this profession rewarding.
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