Assignments and Activities in Family & Consumer Sciences that Reinforce Concepts in Math
- Compounding interest calculators for savings and loans
- Understanding interest rates on credit cards, bank accounts and loans
- Reading and analyzing nutrition labels, labor-rate graphs, job outlook information etc.
- Collecting a random sample for a psychology experiment
- Generating tables and graphs based on data collected during an experiment
- Understanding the concept of positive, negative or no correlation
- Mean, median, mode, normal curve
- Determining the %age of your income spent on _______, 10% off of a product
- Doubling or cutting in half the measurements in a recipe
- Working with fractions in measurement
- Recognizing the difference between a teaspoon & tablespoon, 1/3rd and 3/4th cup etc.
- Time: cook times, preparation times etc.
- Unit pricing vs. retail price (calculating the retail price based on quantity and unit price)
- Asking yourself, does 1 cup of salt make sense (smile, this comes up more often than you know)
- Determining the best buy (given real life consumer choices)