There are 16 career clusters leading to various career pathways. Instructors can incorporate these clusters into curriculum design and instruction. Adult education services will include workforce preparation activities and training for specific occupations; this will allow students to achieve their educational and career goals. For a listing and description of these career clusters, please click on the link below.
Adding Integers
All students need to learn to add positive and negative since they may have to handle a budget while working a job, or in their own personal life. Students may start with a negative budget and it will be their job to make sure the project they are working on ends with a positive balance. So it would be important for students to know how to work with positive and negative numbers.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Banking Accounts
Students will be able to differentiate between banking accounts and calulate deductions and deposits.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Calculating Percent in Real-Life Situations
The purpose of this lesson is for students to be able to proficiently work with percent problems in real world situations. After this lesson, students will be more informed consumers and will be able to use these skills as needed for work and life.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Checkbook Integers
Students will be able to apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction of rational numbers to complete a computerized check register so that they will be able to accurately maintain workplace financial documents. Not only will this help from a business standpoint, but this will also help them in their personal lives as they will be able to keep transaction records of their own accounts.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Number and Ratios
Number and Ratios
- Number and Ratios
It's Party Time!
Dividing is important to all life-skills, including monthly budgeting, social activities, and grocery bills. Dividing is a building block for all higher order math skills.
GED Content Areas
- Number and Ratios
Number and Ratios
Payroll Taxes
To help students identify the types of taxes that are deducted from their wages and why.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Real-Life Proportions
This lesson will assist students in understanding proportions. Use of ratios and rates from the previous lesson will be continued in the set up and use of proportions. Students will demonstrate their understanding of proportion by using ratio reasoning.
The use of proportions is important because it will give students knowledge of utlilizing the concepts learned in real-life. Some of the tasks students will be able to perform are solving geometric and measurment problems, calculate recipes, driving distances, and costs. Students will be able to use proportional reasoning at work and home.
Prerequisites for this lesson are understanding ratios and rate from the previous lesson. Also, students need to have a good understanding of mulitplication.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Algebra and Functions
Real-Life Ratios and Rates
This lesson will assist students in understanding the concepts of ratio and rate. Use of the concept learned and process on how to set up rates and ratios. The instructor will write the lesson purpose and objectives on the board.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of the concept of a ratio by using ratio language to describe relationships between quantities.
Ratio and rate is important because it will give students the knowledge of utilizing the concepts learned in real life. Some of the tasks students will be able to perform by understanding these concepts are: solve geometric problems, measuring problems, calculate recipes, calculate driving distances and cost, etc… Students will be able to use this at work when mixing ingredients to meet specified requirements of things like spices, batter, explosives, and chemicals.
A prerequisite to this lesson is understanding rational numbers. The opening conversation will reveal how each student could use these skills in real-life situations. For example: What is the unit cost of one soda from a case? What is the distance between two locations on a map with a 1 inch scale? How many miles per gallon does your car average?
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Using Proportion to Solve Percent
The purpose of this lesson is not only to identify the part of the percent proportion method correctly, but become a better decision maker when it comes to getting the best value for your money. Students will also be able to calculate taxes, tips, discounts, and simple interest.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Algebra and Functions
Health Care Jobs
When job-seeking, students will need to understand terminology used, such as median salary, in order to determine whether or not the job will meet their financial needs. In addition to learning the skills necessary to calculate salary information, they will also learn more about their field(s) of interest.
GED Content Areas
- Language
The Vocabulary of Saving and Investing Money
Students will use context clues to determine the meanings of new words in articles about personal finance. Students will need to use this skill in future class, on exams, and in the workplace. Students will learn about the importance of saving and some basic ways to invest their money.
GED Content Areas
- Language