COURSE NAME: Business Mathematics

SCHOOL DISTRICT: St. Johnsville

INSTRUCTOR: Mr. David Talaba

FULL YEAR

COURSE PREREQUISITES: None

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE: A full year math course designed to prepare students with the
technical math skills necessary to function and manage finances in the 21st century.

Major areas of study include but are not limited to… problem solving with whole numbers, fractions and
percents; problem solving with formulas and equations; basic statistics; graphing; bank records; payroll;
simple and compound interest; investments; credit; depreciation; insurance, and taxes.

Students work individually and in small groups to understand and solve problems related to real-life situations
at work and managing home and property.

12/17/04