Making money is important to teenagers. It is up to your apprentices to determine how much two wage earners make with their after school jobs. Participants work with a table, an equation, and a graph and compare the two workers to see who get paid more money. Learners would benefit by highlighting the relationship between all three. This would make an excellent presentation.

Concepts

interpretation, line graphs, graphs, linear equations, equations, proportions

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Additional Tags

proportional relationship, line graph, interpretation, comparing data from graphs, linear equation, math

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Pros

• Pupils are able to see the relationships between a table, equation, and graph.
• The lesson is very relatable to students since many will have after school jobs. 

Cons

• There is no clear objective to this lesson.
• Teachers must determine what to focus on.

Common Core

8.EE.B.5