Career Clusters

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.

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Lessons
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Finance
Adding Integers

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Lesson Title	Adding Integers
Unit Title	Integers
NRS Level	Level 4
Length of Lesson	60 minutes

Lesson Purpose

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.

Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to add integers.

Student Target

I can add positive and negative numbers.

CCR Focus Standards

Number and Ratios - Level D

7.NS.1
Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.

Supporting Standards

6.NS.6a
Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line; recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself, e.g., –(–3) = 3, and that 0 is its own opposite.

Standards for Mathematical Practice

MP.5
Use appropriate tools strategically. (MP.5)
MP.7
Look for and make use of structure. (MP.7)
MP.8
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. (MP.8)

KYAE Employability Standards

E.1
E.1 Effectively contribute to a team through cooperation, leadership, and giving and accepting critical feedback to work toward a common goal.
E.6
E.6 Identify and effectively use skills and materials needed for a particular task.
E.8
E.8 Interact with others in a professional manner.