Smoking: The Real Cost

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Smoking: The Real Cost

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This is a great lesson to use anytime but especially during Red Ribbon Week or on National Smoke Out Day. Students calculate the cost of smoking over a period of time and construct graphs to display the data.

Education Levels:

6, 7, 8

Subject:

Number Sense

Resource Type:

Activity

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Graphing, Charts, Cigarettes, Bar graphs, Smoking, Pricing

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Carol Spice

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/Lessons/4482.htm

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Mathematics

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand E: Data Analysis and Probability

Standard 1: The student understands and uses the tools of data analysis for managing information.

Benchmark MA.E.1.3.1: The student collects, organizes, and displays data in a variety of forms, including tables, line graphs, charts, bar graphs, to determine how different ways of presenting data can lead to different interpretations.

Seventh
1. generates and collects data for analysis

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand A: Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations

Standard 3: The student understands the effects of operations on numbers and the relationships among these operations, selects appropriate operations, and computes for problem solving.

Benchmark MA.A.3.3.2: The student selects the appropriate operation to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational numbers, ratios, proportions, and percents, including the appropriate application of the algebraic order of operations.

Seventh
1. knows the appropriate operation to solve real-world problems involving fractions, decimals, and integers

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand A: Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations

Standard 3: The student understands the effects of operations on numbers and the relationships among these operations, selects appropriate operations, and computes for problem solving.

Seventh
2. solves real-world problems involving decimals and fractions using two- or three-step problems

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand A: Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations

Standard 3: The student understands the effects of operations on numbers and the relationships among these operations, selects appropriate operations, and computes for problem solving.

Seventh
3. solves real-world problems invloving percents (for example, discounts, simple interest, taxes, tips)

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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