STANDARD 4.1 (Number and numerical operations) All students will develop number sense and will perform standard numerical operations and estimations on all types of numbers in a variety of ways.
Pay Day!
Pay Day!
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OVERVIEW
Throughout this Web Quest, the students will participate in a variety of activities that involve the New Jersey Core curriculum Standards. Using research based information, students will synthesize information, problem solve, draw conclusions and communicate their results. Math topics are integrated throughout the learning experience. Language Arts and Reading skills are honed as the students research and read information from given web sites. Using this Web Quest as a directed internet research tool, along with integrating Life Skills, facilitates using technology across the curriculum.
Project Title: Pay Day!
To develop career awareness and employability skills.
To comprehend how wages are calculated and identify deductions on a paycheck.
To use mathematical processes of problem solving.
Objectives:
The student will calculate gross pay.
The student will identify deductions.
The student will calculate net pay.
The student will use the U. S. Department of Labor web site to research job titles.
The student will collaborate with others to complete a payroll ledger.
Target Population: Special education students - grades 9 – 12
Classified Multiply Handicapped and Learning Disabled
STANDARD 4.1 (Number and numerical operations) All students will develop number sense and will perform standard numerical operations and estimations on all types of numbers in a variety of ways.
STANDARD 4.5 (Mathematical processes) All students will use mathematical processes of problem solving, communication, connections, reasoning, representations, and technology to solve problems and communicate mathematical ideas.
Learn mathematics through problem solving, inquiry, and discovery.
Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts (cf. workplace readiness standard 8.3).
Open-ended problems
Non-routine problems
Problems with multiple solutions
Problems that can be solved in several ways
Select and apply a variety of appropriate problem-solving strategies (e.g., "try a simpler problem" or "make a diagram") to solve problems.
Pose problems of various types and levels of difficulty.
Monitor their progress and reflect on the process of their problem solving activity.
Use communication to organize and clarify their mathematical thinking.
Reading and writing
Discussion, listening, and questioning
Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others, both orally and in writing.
Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.
Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.
STANDARD 9.1 (Career and Technical Education) All students will develop career awareness and planning, employability skills, and foundational knowledge necessary for success in the workplace.
Re-evaluate personal interests, abilities, and skills through various measures including self assessments.
Evaluate academic and career skills needed in various career clusters.
Analyze factors that can impact an individual's career.
Review and update their career plan and include the plan in a portfolio.
Research current advances in technology that apply to a selected occupational career cluster.
Assess personal qualities that are needed to obtain and retain a job related to career clusters.
Communicate and comprehend written and verbal thoughts, ideas, directions, and information relative to educational and occupational settings.
Select and utilize appropriate technology in the design and implementation of teacher-approved projects relevant to occupations and/or higher educational settings.
Evaluate the following academic and career skills as they relate to home, school, community, and employment:
Communication
Punctuality
Time management
Organization
Decision making
Goal setting
Resources allocation
Fair and equitable competition
Safety
Employment application skills
Teamwork
Demonstrate teamwork and leadership skills that include student participation in real world applications of career and technical education skills.
Participate in a structured learning experience that demonstrates interpersonal communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.
Participate in simulated industry assessments, when and where appropriate.
Prepare industry-specific technical reports/projects that incorporate graphic aids, when and where appropriate.
STANDARD 9.2 (Consumer, Family, and Life Skills) All students will demonstrate critical life skills in order to be functional members of society.
Apply communications and data analysis to the problem-solving and decision making processes in a variety of life situations.
Analyze factors that influence gross and net income.
Task Summary
This Web Quest is both analytical and collaborative in its activities. Students will work together in groups of 3, assuming the role of either a sales clerk. a cashier or a fast food worker. As employees, they research job descriptions, deductions, parts of a paycheck and use formulas to complete accurate time sheets. Together, they must “balance the ledger” by checking each other's calculations and printing paychecks.
Unit Design Consideration & the Affective Domain
This Web Quest is designed to engage the student with life skills necessary in the working world. Given the population of high school students, most will be obtaining their first job shortly, thereby creating the hook. The goals and objectives of this Web Quest are timely and relevant life skills, giving it sense and meaning to the student.
Basic skills such as counting money, adding and subtracting money are on the concrete spectrum of Bloom’s taxonomy. Mastering these basic skills is a challenge to this Special Education population. However, applying these skills with relevance to adding time on a time sheet moves up Bloom’s to the more abstract thinking process.
By successfully completing time sheets, calculating paychecks and identifying deductions, the student may transfer these skills to real life employment, thereby internalizing this success and become more confident when joining the working world.
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