Assignments


09/27/21: Applet Research

Applets

Title Description
Opposite Angles of Cyclic Quad This applet lets you explore how opposite angles in a cyclic quadrilateral relate and lets students explore what they look like and how they change and interact.
Nature of Roots This applet lets you discover and observe roots by using sliders to change the coefficients of a quadratic equation.
Interactive Logarithm Table This applet lets you change the number, base, and how it rounds the answer to discover the logs of any number you want.
Interactive Supplementary Angles This applet allows you to drag points on a line to create different angles that add to 180 degrees.
Reflect a Point You can use this applet to reflect points across a line to learn about reflections and their properties.

Applets for Math and Personal Finance

Title Description
Portfolios With One Risky Investment This applet combines two investments into one portfolio and allows you to change the values and risk of the investments to see how it effects the rate of return.
Future Value Calculator This applet lets you enter dollar amounts, interest rates, number of years, future values, and interest earned to compute somethings future value.
Compound Interest This applet lets you change the initial amount, the interest rate, and how often the interest compounds to see how compound interest will add up over time.
Math of House Buying This applet allows you to learn about mortgages and interact with graphs and mortgage calculators.
Counting Money Basic applet for learning to count money.

Other Resources for Math and Personal Finance

Title Description
Money Magic Online game that walks you through budgeting in a fun interactive way.
Bummer Interactive game that walks you through the ins and outs of insurance.
ConsumerMath.org Online lessons about personal finance from getting a job to investing and everything in between.
Introduction to Financial Math A video describing what financial mathematics is, what it is used for, and how it can help you.
Personal Budget Webpage that walks you through budgeting, the dos and donts and how to create a good budget.

10/04/21: Technology Enhanced Activity 1

Tri, Tri Again

10/25/21: Applet 1 (sin(x))



After exploring with the applet above, answer the following questions:
1. What differences can you see between when b is negative verses when b is positive?
2. How does a negative a value impact the graph?
3. Which values of the graph are affected in relation to a, and which values are affected in relation to b?


11/04/21: Applet 2 (Pythagorean Theorem)

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11/09/21: Original GeoGebra Applet



After exploring with the applet above, answer the following questions:
1. How does this applet change your understanding about integrals and how they relate to personal finance mathematics?
2. How would you use this applet to find your net income?
3. Look up a high school math teachers salary and ones average living expenses in a city of your choice. Using this information, figure out how much extra money you would spend on the wants you have in your life regularly. How much money would you have left over? Walk me through your process.


12/01/21: Desmos Activity

Desmos Activity


12/07/21: Final Project

Geometry and Personal Finance