Reminder: Out of consideration for those in the classroom who are chemically sensitive, please refrain from using any manmade products in the classroom. Thank you!
PROJECT: Make a Documentary
DAY 1
Understanding the Stock Market
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone) and worksheet
Part 1: How the Stock Market Works
Part 2: Trading Stocks Worksheet Explanation
Part 3: Yahoo Finance
Part 4: Trading Stocks Worksheet - Choose your stocks and complete the first row
DAY 2
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone), stock chart, textbook
Part 1: Log your stock share prices and determine your gain or loss
Part 2: Take notes on the following articles from the textbook. Do all the notes on one page. State the title for each article.
Pg.10 The World’s Richest Female Singer: Madonna!
Pg. 72 “Lightning Bolt” Strikes!
Pg. 101 Want a Job? Especially One that Pays Well? GO TO COLLEGE!
Pg. 128 Finding the Best Bang for Your College Buck
Pg. 152 GPA Tops SAT!
Pg. 182 High Altitude A Big Plus for Soccer Teams
Part 3: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly
DAY 3
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone), stock chart, textbook
Part 1: Log your stock share prices and determine your gain or loss
Part 2: Take notes on the following articles from the text book
Pg. 209 Godzilla Grows!
Pg. 233 Should You Study and Tweet at the Same Time?
Pg. 257 Maggots? Don’t Say “Eww” So Fast!
Pg. 302 Got Enough Plates?
Pg. 318 Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Record
Pg. 341 Trial by Mathematics
Part 3: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly
DAY 4
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone), stock chart, textbook
Part 1: Log your stock share prices and determine your gain or loss
Part 2: Take notes on the following articles from the text book
Pg. 366 Cheaters: Beware of Benford!
Pg. 391 MVS!*MVS! Yay, Math!!
Pg. 417 Heads, You Lose?
Pg. 451 Questioning Ultrasound
Pg. 490 Dogs - Not just Our Best Friends!
Part 3: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly
DAY 5
Part 1: Algebra Review Important: Below are tutorial videos for every problem.
Tutorial Videos for Algebra Review:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
Part 2: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly
DAY 6
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone), stock chart, textbook
Part 1: Log your stock share prices and determine your gain or loss
Part 2: College Math Placement Exam Prep
The following material will help prepare you for the math portion of the college entrance exam. This exam determines which math
class you will be placed in. Depending on your major, if you score high on this exam, you may no longer be required to take a math
course.
Do Math Level 1 from the Exam Prep document below. Note: You can find step-by-step solutions at the end of the document.
Mt. Sac (Mt. San Antonio College) Exam Prep Where is Mt. San Antonio College
Part 3: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly
DAY 7
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone)
Part 1: Do Math Level 2 from the Exam Prep document from DAY 6.
Part 2: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly.
DAY 8
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone), stock chart, textbook
Part 1: Log your stock share prices and determine your gain or loss
Part 2: Do the Arithmetic Sample Questions 1-20 (Pg. 7-8)
PCC (Pasadena City College) Math Exam Prep Where is PCC?
Part 3: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly.
DAY 9
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone)
Part 1: Do Elementary Algebra Sample Questions 1-20 (Pg. 9-11) from the PCC Math Exam Prep document above.
Part 2: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly.
DAY 10
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone)
Part 1: Log your stock share prices and determine your gain or loss
Part 2: Complete Level 1 of the ELAC math test prep.
Level 1 ELAC (East Los Angeles College) Where is ELAC?
Part 3: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly.
DAY 11
Materials Needed: TI-Calculator (Not your phone)
Part 1: Complete Level 2 of the ELAC math test prep
Level 2
Part 2: If you finish early, do something else on your own quietly.
DAY 12
EC Review
Exam Info:
The Unit 3 test will consist of the following:
- Problems from all of the practice college entrance exams done prior
- Questions related to stocks
- Problems from the Unit 1 and Unit 2 exams
Unit 3 Packet (Top to Bottom)
Completed Stock Tracker
Day 2-4 Notes from Stats in Your World Textbook
Algebra Review
Mt. Sac Assignments Level 1-2
PCC Assignments 1-2
ELAC Assignments Level 1-2
Unit 2 Test Corrections (Put the corrections in front of the test)
DISREGARD
Food Log Activity
Materials Needed: iPad and TI-Calculator (Not your phone)
Instructions: For the next week you will track the foods you ate the day before on cronometer.com. Create an account.
Cronometer.com
Food Log
Time Waste vs. Time Well Spent