Lesson 3 – Muessel (This lesson was actually great as is, we didn't change much)
Title slide – What did we learn last week?
Give kids handout with problems on them. Do problem #1 now and discuss. Make a tally about different ways the kids could spend $10.00
Slide 1 – Kids can earn $ too
Did anyone earn any money over the weekend? How?
Explain how jobs that kids can do really are businesses, use slide for aid.
Slide 3 – Entrepreneur stuff
An entrepreneur is someone who starts a business. – Keep it very basic.
Slide 4 – Elena the entrepreneur
Great slide, just read through this one and move on to slide 5.
Slide 5 – Break even
Go over expenses – If she charges $5 a day how many days until she breaks even?
“A business that fails its customers will fail itself” - What do you think this means?
Slides 6-9
Great problem about the lemonade stand. After slide 8 ask the kids how many cups of lemonade will Eric need to sell to earn $15 profit. Walk them through the problem step by step.
Slide 10 -You can be an entrepreneur too
Have the kids draw business ideas of their own in the workbook, then discuss.
Slide 11 – Recap what we learned this week
Talk about next week and pig
Lesson 3 went well. The kids did a great job of recalling what we went over both last week and also in the first session, so at least they've retained something.
ReplyDeleteWe started the class with a moderately difficult problem and ended up spending quite a bit of time breaking it down and showing the kids different ways to do it. It seemed pretty valuable to the kids, especially the ones who took awhile to do it.
Also now that we are getting further into the material it helps to ask questions that tie everything together. For example
Q) What are businesses you guys can do?
A) Rake leaves for money.
Q) Where are you going to take the money when you get it?
A) The bank
Q) Ok, so if you deposited $12.00 and kept $5.00 how much money do you have in total?
A) $17.00, etc
Basically the material seems to flow together great so asking questions even if they seem obvious can really help to reinforce previous lessons.
From Urbany:
ReplyDeleteLesson 3 plan looks good guys - great that you stuck with the problem to take all the kids through it. Also, you're right about asking questions that may sound obvious - those questions will be helpful in getting all the kids on the same page.
Any feedback or suggestions from Miss Vanhaver on how to approach the math problems?