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.

Career Cluster Pathways

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Lesson Title	Payroll Taxes
Unit Title	Financial Literacy-Tax Time
NRS Level	Level 6
Length of Lesson	90 minutes

Lesson Purpose

To help students identify the types of taxes that are deducted from their wages and why.

Lesson Objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify and calculate taxes being deduced from their weekly/bi-weekly paychecks.

Student Target

“I can describe the types of taxes that are deducted from a paycheck.”

“I can calculate different taxes to be taken out of a paycheck.”

CCR Focus Standards

Number and Ratios - Level D

7.NS.3
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.
7.RP.3
Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error. (Also see 7.G.1 and G.MG.2)

Supporting Standards

6.NS.5
Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.

Standards for Mathematical Practice

MP.1
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. (MP.1)
MP.6
Attend to precision. (MP.6)

KYAE Employability Standards

E.2
E.2 Utilize workplace tools and technologies to communicate effectively (e.g., memos/e-mails, basic computer programs, phone systems).
E.5
E.5 Utilize resources responsibly.
E.7
E.7 Accurately analyze information and respond appropriately.