Curriculum Micro Teaching Lesson Plan

 Lesson Plan Workplace Mathematics 11


Unit:

Financial Literacy 


Topic:

To purchase, own, or lease and to operate and maintain a vehicle


Big Ideas: 

Mathematics informs financial decision making


Curricular Competencies:


Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLO’s):

  • Describe the difference between buying and leasing a vehicle

  • To understand and know how to apply the factors that involve buying or leasing a vehicle

  • Defining the positives and negatives of both buying and leasing 

  • Use rational decision-making by comparing buying vs. leasing a car


Materials and Equipment:

  • White board

  • Marker

  • Activity Handout


Warm up questions:

  • How many people do you know have cars?

  • Do they buy or lease them?

  • Do you know what factors to consider when debating between buying and leasing?


Lesson components + Activities


Beginning (~5 minutes) : 

  • Warm up questions

  • Definitions of buy / lease

    • Buying: outright buying vs financing

  • What factors do we consider 

  • Go over formulas


Middle (Activity) (~10 minutes):

  • How to calculate the approximate total cost of either buying (outright or financing) or leasing including operating and maintaining the vehicle 


End (Wrap up) (~5 minutes):

  • Summary

(Think - Pair - Share):

  • Advantages / disadvantages of buying and leasing

  • How different circumstances affect this decision

4 comments:

  1. Hi You, Michael and Allyssa, thank you so much for the comprehensive lesson plan! I really appreciate how you introduce the differences between buying and leasing before delving into the math. I was wondering, would you consider providing a real-life scenario with a fixed number or an open-ended, case-by-case question for the students? Also, I'm curious about how you plan to break down the formulas for better understanding—will you use instructional teaching or relational teaching? Do you think these concepts might be too broad to be adequately discussed and covered within a 20-minute time frame?

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    1. Thank you for asking! We were planning to give out three real-life scenario with different cases. But like you questioned, it was too much to fit in a 20-minute time frame, we end up with first two scenario: outright buy and financing, we don't have enough time to go through the leasing. I think we should consider the time and pace more wisely.

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  2. Thanks Qiaochu! I'm also wondering what will actually be happening during the 10 minute 'middle activity'. What will the students be doing? What will you be doing? How will you share the teaching activities among the three of you?

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    1. Sorry I forgot to put the handout for activities.

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