Unit 1 Plan

Decision Making in Finance

Students develop and apply skills used in college and

careers, including reasoning, planning, and
communication, to make decisions and solve problems in
applied situations.
Students create and analyze mathematical models to make
decisions related to earning, investing, spending, and
borrowing money to evaluate real-world situations.

Salaries
I can determine
gross pay salary
amounts when given
yearly, monthly, biweekly, and hourly
wages amounts.
I can describe the
correlation between
education level and
salary amount.

How do the math skills learned in school

affect future decisions with regard to
finances?

Taxes

Insurance &
Retirement

Expenses

I can compute the

amount of taxes
withheld in a pay check
based on percentages.

I can compute the

amount of insurance
and retirement
withheld in a pay check
based on percentages.

I can find the

percent of money used
to create categories in
a budget.

I can determine
net pay after taxes.

AMDM

I can create a
I can determine
visual representation of
the net pay after taxes a budget.
and insurance have been
taken out.

Budgets
I can create a
budget using percents
and dollar amounts.