Add and Subtract Fractions
By adding and subtracting fractions using real scenarios and measuring tools, students can see and understand how relevant and applicable these skills are in a healthcare setting.
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
Budgeting: Learning to Manage Money to Achieve Your Goals
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn the importance of budgeting from a monthly income and analyzing common monthly expenses in order to select a career that will allow them a reasonable standard of living. This lesson aims to motivate students to further their education and set career and financial goals.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Decimal Sense
To build on prior conceptual knowledge of fractions toward recognition of benchmarks
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Decimals
The purpose of this lesson is to give students fluency and confidence when computing with decimals, as it would be an everyday task for any healthcare worker.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Employability Skills Lesson 3
Now that students have an idea of what jobs are available to them with their current skill level, they can begin to research what each job entails. This lesson gives them the opportunity to use hands-on math to determine more detailed salary information and to see what skills they will need to get to the next level into a “dream” job.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Introduction to Circles
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to measure and compare the ratio of circumference to diameter of circles and to identify the relationships between the parts of a circle. Also, students will form generalizations about employment opportunities such as quilting, jewelry making, manufacturing of ball bearings, car rims and wheels, sports equipment, and skilled jobs such as, plumbing, construction, machinist, etc.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Geometry
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
Location, Location, Location: Navigating in the Coordinate Plane
In this lesson, students will learn the basic knowledge or a coordinate grid and what it is useful. Students will learn to plot points and use points to determine location. Knowledge of the coordinate plane is a precursor to more advanced geometry and trigonometry. In and of itself, however, the application of some sort of organized locator plan is used in groceries, department stores, parking lots, campuses of colleges and large businesses, and, locally, in at least four factories.
GED Content Areas
Geometry
Number and Ratios
Math Skills for Carpet & Tile Installation
This lesson shows students how math skills can be applied to make improvements to their own living spaces. It also shows them how they would use these math skills if they were employed in the trade jobs of carpet laying or tile setting. This lesson builds on the unit’s aim to help students explore trade jobs.
GED Content Areas
Geometry
Number and Ratios
Medical Math and Unit Conversions
This lesson is intended to better prepare students interested in the SRNA program. The purpose of this lesson is for students to be able to determine the appropriate unit of measure for an object and be able to convert the unit of measure when necessary. The student will also be comparing the metric measurements to the customary U.S. units of measure as it relates to the medical/nursing field and SRNA requirements.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Multiply and Divide Fractions
The purpose of this lesson is to expand students’ comfort and knowledge in using, computing, and relating with fractions. Students will gain a better understanding of the concepts behind the operations and algorithms we use to multiply and divide fractions.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Percent and Pie Charts
This lesson is designed to enhance student understanding of the following mathematical skills:
Measurement and Spatial Reasoning: students will make frequent use of a protractor in the construction of appropriately-sized pie charts in the representation of data.
Numeracy: students will understand percent of a whole as a visual model. They will be able to compare a given percent to a benchmark percent value (25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 75%) in order to have a sense of accuracy and intuitive meaning. Students will develop an ability to connect different representations of the same data, and be able to represent data in multiple forms to better understand percent/proportional reasoning.
Procedural Fluency: students will increase their procedural fluency, which is one of the components of rigor, by repeatedly using the standard algorithm for computing percent of a whole
Additionally, this lesson is designed to enhance student understanding of the following mathematical concepts/content areas:
Percent: students will be asked to make computations with percent as an input or output
Precise Representation of Data: students will construct accurate pie-charts that describe raw data
Proportional Reasoning: students will apply percent concepts toward their overall understanding and development of proportional reasoning
The mathematical skills and content in this lesson has significance in the workforce and in high stakes exams such as the GED® exam, COMPASS®, and KYOTE®.
Pre-requisite Knowledge: Ideally, students will already have some experience calculating percent; this should not be the first lesson in a unit on percent for students.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Percent Basics
he purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to working with percentages. Gaining a conceptual understanding of percentages will help students to better analyze real life percent applications of within the workplace and as an everyday consumer.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Rate
To build on students’ prior understanding of place value as they begin to compare numerical properties
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Ratio and Proportion - Using a Double Number Line
This lesson is designed to enhance student numeracy by introducing students to ratio reasoning with and without pre-defined quantities. Students will use a double number line to make sense of and solve for equivalent ratios as they would occur in the health sciences field as well as real-life situations.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Number and Ratios
Real World Perimeter and Area
The benefit of students understanding the properties of perimeter and area gives the learners tools to reason with in daily life. Students will have learned skills that can be transferred both to their personal lives and their jobs. This lesson will help students understand the concepts of perimeter and area and how to use this knowledge in home and office improvements and/or repairs.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Number and Ratios
Geometry
The Four Operations with Fractions for Trade Jobs
The ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions is an important skill to solve real life math problems. The guided and independent practice problems are designed to show students how they might have to solve problems with fractions for power/energy jobs and other trade jobs.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Number and Ratios
Three Views of a Ratio: Using Unit Rate
This lesson is the second part of Module 6 for the SRNA program. The purpose of this lesson is to have students comfortably reason, create, and perform calculations among ratios in three different ways:
• Simple written ratio/proportion
• Ratio data tables
• Graphs on a coordinate plane
This lesson will help students navigate between all three at ease and “bring it all together.” Most high-stakes exams, such as the GED® Test, KYOTE, and others will expect students to have skills in all three of these areas and be able to do calculations or produce meaningful statements about data. This lesson also calls on students to compare rates. This is significant because students will often be asked in exams, on the job, or in their everyday lives to make a judgment call on the “better” rate, given two ratios not in a unit rate. Higher-order reasoning skills are honed when students make qualitative inferences from mathematical data and relationships. To this end, SRNA and medical related/specific items are given as problem samples whenever possible.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Three-Dimensional Shapes: Area and Nets
The purpose of the lesson is for students to understand that surface area is the area of all of the faces of the three-dimensional shape. Students will develop techniques for computing surface area by breaking the three-dimensional shape into nets.
Note: Due to the nature of the lesson, the three-dimensional shapes chosen should be: rectangular prism, cube, triangular prism, & rectangular pyramid. These shapes will be the easiest to manipulate using square graph paper.
GED Content Areas
Geometry
Number and Ratios
Time Management
Time management is critical to students' college- and career-readiness and future workplace success. This lesson introduces important mathematical building blocks of conversion in a practical, student-relevant manner.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Two-Dimensional Shapes: Area and Perimeter
The purpose of the lesson is to teach students the concept of perimeter and area regarding two-dimensional figures, how they can be kinesthetically calculated, and what they are used for in real life.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Types of Income
To help students identify the differences between gross and net income, through the deductions taken from gross income.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Understanding Fractions
The purpose of the lesson is to help students understand the multiplication and division of mixed fractions. In everyday life, we have to multiply and divide fractions. For example, when we measure items, we are ultimately dividing fractions. Another real world example of when you would divide fractions is if there is a family with limited money for food, they must think about how to ration out food evenly for the entire family for the day, the week, or even the month. Dividing fractions is a real-world skill that helps to solve everyday problems.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Understanding Ratios: Using Ratio Tables
This lesson builds upon SRNA Module 5 and moves students further in their ratio numeracy, according to the lead standard, with the use of ratio tables, a tool that facilitates proportional reasoning. Students are often taught to calculate and solve for an unknown in a proportion (such as with the ‘butterfly method’) with very little emphasis placed on understanding the relationship between the numbers involved. Superimposing a rule, even a “good” rule, often forces students away from the meaning, and this lesson will provide an alternative method that strengthens student proportional reasoning skills and number sense. Additionally, reasoning with ratio tables provides students opportunities to use multiple pathways to achieve a solution to a problem, and students are able to see discrete ratios along the way toward the main goal.
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