2024 Updates for the Filing Federal Income Taxes Unit are now available!
The CKMath Filing Federal Income Taxes unit has been updated with 2024 tax forms! If you’ve previously purchased this unit, you can now access the latest version with the most up-to-date tax forms. Here’s the good news – there were hardly any changes made to the tax forms this year (at least that affect this […]
Easy Budget Project for High School Students
Are you struggling to teach budgeting in your classroom? Here’s an easy budgeting project your students will love! One of the biggest challenges I faced as a personal finance teacher was teaching students who had never earned a paycheck to manage and budget their money. It is a hard concept to grasp for students who […]
Four Fun Budgeting Lessons & Activities for High School Students
Teaching budgeting doesn’t have to be boring! Budgeting is an effective way to avoid debt as an adult, but it can be tricky to teach to teenagers who haven’t had many life experiences or financial emergencies yet. Check out these budgeting lesson and activity ideas, which will give students a foundation for understanding budgeting and […]
My Favorite Real-World Math Project
Looking for a fun way to give your students a reality check while building their financial literacy skills? This is one of my favorite real-world math projects, and it will have your students in shock. The cost of having a baby is definitely something my students had heard their parents ‘complain’ about, but their jaws […]
3 Halloween Graphing Activity Ideas
Need some fun practice with linear equations, plotting points on the coordinate plane, or geometric transformations? I’ve admitted that I’ve never really loved doing holiday activities in my math class. I think this is because many activities I’ve used are more fluff than actual substance. It just seems like there’s never enough time, so it’s […]
Teaching Teens about their Paychecks
Need some ideas for lessons and activities that will teach your high school students how to interpret the information on their paychecks? Many students get their first job during high school, get their first paycheck, and have no idea what they are looking at. This provides an excellent opportunity to teach financial literacy and, of […]
No-Sweat Income Tax Lessons for High School Students
Looking for good federal income tax lessons for high school students? I’ve got what you need to teach students about W-2s, tax tables, Form 1040, and more without the stress. If you’ve read many posts on this blog, you know my mission is to rid all math classrooms of the dreaded ‘When will I ever have […]
How to Speed Date in Math Class
Yes, you read that right. Speed dating in math class. Here’s a great activity idea for you that can be applied to an infinite number of topics. The first time I used speed dating was with my Algebra class to practice multiplying polynomials. I’d already taught how to do this, but I was looking for […]
First Jobs Interview Activity
This is one of my favorite quick and easy job activities to introduce and get students thinking about job-related skills. I think students can learn a lot from knowing where adults they look up to got their start, especially if they’re able to talk with an adult who has a profession they admire. The students […]
Hands-On Dilations Activity using Rubber Bands
When I started teaching 8th-grade pre-algebra a few years ago, I looked everywhere for a good hands-on way to introduce and explore dilations. It turns out that this is harder to find than the many ideas I found for rotations and reflections. I posted about my favorite way to teach rigid transformations last week – you […]