Business Math

Lessons, Problems and Exercises

Teach and learn the basic concepts and usage of basic business math, consumer math, and practical applied math.  These lesson plans, lessons, interactive material, and worksheets will introduce your students to these math topics.

Here we highlight our material that fits into a traditional business math curriculum.  It begins with more simple money math including decimals, place value, addition, subtraction, and percentages. It continues with earning money, income and wages, taxes, checking accounts, bank savings accounts, investments, and more consumer math skills.


Main Business Math Categories


MONEY MATH

Basic math review. Practice money math problems and exercises in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percents and percentages, fractions, decimals, estimation, and rounding. Also practice with coins.

 

EARNING MONEY - INCOME AND WAGES

Teach and learn about earning and making money. Learn about different ways that people make money. Practice reading and understanding earnings statements, time card sheets, income, health insurance, deductions and other lessons related to earning and making money.


PAYING TAXES

These worksheets and lessons may be used to help teach your students tax basics. Learn what are taxes, why do we pay taxes, and what taxes are used for, while reinforcing basic math and reading comprehension. Includes basics such as sales taxes, and paying income taxes.

 

CHECKING ACCOUNTS

Learn how to write a check, make checking account deposits and withdrawals, manage and balance your checkbook, and checkbook reconciliation.

 

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

A basic understanding of banking and interest rates is a fundamental money skill. Learn about bank savings accounts, banks, and interest rates.

 

SPENDING MONEY - CONSUMER MATH

Worksheets and lessons on spending money and consumer math.  Includes discounts, needs and wants, receipts, tipping, estimation, comparison shopping, invoices, and more.

 

INVESTING

All about investing money and money management. Learn basic investing and financial concepts. Including stocks, the stock market, interest, income statements. Buying stocks, calculating shares purchased, percentage change in share price, how to read a stock table. Security pricing.

 

BUDGETING

Use these worksheets to teach basic budget concepts. Use these printable budget worksheets and budgeting lessons to teach real life basic budget concepts. Budget lesson plans and worksheets for teaching household budgeting.

 


Additional Business Math Lessons


EXCHANGE RATES

 

Money Exchange

Students learn about money exchange from US to foreign.

 

Money Exchange from Foreign to US

Students learn about money exchange from foreign to US.

 

Exchange Rates

The rate at which one currency is converted into another currency is the foreign exchange rate. Use this lesson as an introduction to converting currencies.

 

PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT

 

Profit and Loss Statement

Teach and learn about a P&L or profit and loss statement, a basic worksheet of a businesses' profitability.

 

BUSINESS DECISIONS

 

Using Algebra to Make Business Decisions

Students use basic algebra to help make business decisions.

 

 

 


 

 

 

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