Students often state that they want to pursue a particular career(such as doctor) without realizing the steps required to achieve their goal.
General Procedure:
- A master table of hourly, daily , weekly, monthly, and yearly salaries is provided for use by the teacher. The teacher could demonstrate using one hourly rate, how the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly salaries are calculated.
- Students could then be assigned an hourly rate at random and they could calculate the other rates. Questions that they could answer are suggested below. Discussion could also be done in groups, so that they could ask opinions of others about some of the questions.
- A yearly salary should also be given to the student so that they could work the calculations "backwards".
- A class discussion of the salaries and their relationship to education, type of career, geographic location, etc., should conclude this activity. A similar discussion should be held at the end of all activities to assess if the students have better career awareness.
What's the Pay?
Name_________________________
- What is the hourly pay rate you are going to use for
your calculations?
- Calculate how much money you would earn in a day at
this rate.
- How much money would you earn in a week working full
time 8 hours a day five days a week?
- What would your yearly salary be?
- What would your monthly salary be?
- What types of careers do you think would pay the
yearly salary you calculated above?
- How much schooling does a person need on average to
make this salary?
- Would any special training or schooling be needed to
get a job that pays this amount? Explain.
- Now write down a yearly salary that has been given to
you.
- Calculate what your monthly rate of pay would be.
- Calculate what your weekly rate of pay would be.
- Calculate your hourly rate of pay.
- List three jobs that you think would pay this amount.
AN INTERNET MATH/SCIENCE CAREER AWARENESS PROJECT