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Budget
By
Gina Amenta-Shin
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After students determine they have
enough information to develop a budget, they will create the
spreadsheet to calculate costs.
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- Teach the concept of budgeting. Create sample
budgets.
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- Mini Lesson on creating a spreadsheet in
ClarisWorks.
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- Identify terms i.e. cells, rows, columns, labels,
values and formulas.
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- Add and organize information in a spreadsheet.
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- Create formulas for adding values in cells.
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- In small groups of 4, students will create a budget
for the class aquarium.
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- Budget
Assessment:
- solve real-world problems
involving number operations;
- select and use operations to
create the budget (e.g. multiplication as the inverse
of division);
- able to estimate a reasonable
result for the budget;
- choose appropriate computational
procedures and tools (e.g., calculators, pencil and
paper, mental computation, estimation) to solve
problems.
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Resources & Materials:
- Class database with information on saltwater
fish
- Spreadsheet software
- One computer for each small group (2-4 children)
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