Ch 4: NES Middle Grades Math: Money & Consumer Math
About This Chapter
NES Middle Grades Math: Money and Consumer Math - Chapter Summary
Use this chapter's lessons as a study resource when you're preparing to take the NES Middle Grades Math examination. As you begin your review, you'll find steps and examples related to topics such as number value, sales commissions, interest formulas, and shipping and handling. Item unit price, sales tax and discounts are also covered. Further examining these subjects could help you with:
- Teaching the value of nickels, dimes, quarters and pennies
- Explaining how to identify a missing coin
- Adding, subtracting and dividing money amounts
- Solving word problems that involve multiplying money by decimals and whole numbers
- Describing the process of making change
- Understanding sales commissions and sales mark-up
- Calculating discounts and taxes as well as tips and shipping and handling
- Outlining the steps for compounding interest formulas and solving interest problems
- Describing item unit price
The lessons are fairly short, self-paced, informational and fun to explore. They include written transcripts, pop quizzes and worksheets. Experienced instructors present the above concepts on money and consumer math. Prepare to pass the NES Middle Grades Math examination by going over the information and building your expertise in each topic.
NES Middle Grades Math - Money and Consumer Math Objectives
There are four content domains on the NES Middle Grades Math examination. Number Sense and Operations, Algebra and Functions, Measurement and Geometry and Statistics, Probability and Discrete Mathematics are each respectively worth 17%, 33%, 25% and 25% of the assessment score. Display what you picked up during your review of this chapter as well as your ability to teach other math subjects during this examination, which consists of 150 multiple-choice questions. The assessment is computer-based, and it must be finished within a four-hour, 15-minute time frame.

1. Coins: Number Value & Letter Name
The United States' currency system includes several coins. Learn the number values and letter names of each of these coins, including the quarter, dime, nickel, and penny.

2. How to Find the Missing Coin
The 'missing coin problems' are math problems where the value of a specific coin is determined by the information about other coins, and the total value. Use the provided examples to learn how to use mathematical operations to solve these problems.

3. Adding & Subtracting Money Amounts
Adding and subtracting money follows the rules for adding and subtracting decimals. Learn about the value of money, how money is added or subtracted using decimals, and ways to avoid making mistakes using a student receiving an allowance as an example.

4. Multiplying Money by Whole Numbers & Decimals
When multiplying money in mathematics, the value is considered as a decimal and follows the rule of multiplying decimals. Learn how to multiply money by whole numbers and decimals.

5. Dividing Money Amounts
Dividing money is a good way to determine which item is a better buy, and money can be divided by whole numbers or decimals. Learn how to divide amounts of money can help make sure you get the best deal for your hard earned cash.

6. Making Change from a Purchase
When making a purchase, a consumer rarely has the exact amount due and often overpays, needing the extra amount paid to be returned as change. Understand the process of making change to give customers the least number of bills and coins as possible, beginning with the largest currency to the smallest.

7. How to Calculate Sales Commissions
Discover how to calculate sales commission based on the three types of commission structures. Review what sales commission is and understand the percentage of sales method, the stair step structure, and the fixed commission structure.

8. How to Mark Up a Price
Marking up prices to cover costs and earn a profit is a common business practice. This lesson explains the standard formula to mark up a price, and provides examples of markups.

9. Taxes & Discounts: Calculations & Examples
Shopping taxes and discounts are two calculations consumers need to understand. Learn the connection between math and shopping, examine examples and calculations for taxes and discounts, and review examples of tax as well as tax and discount calculations.

10. How to Solve Interest Problems: Steps & Examples
If a person is trying to learn how to better save money, it's important that they learn about interest. This lesson explores how to calculate interest, how to find the interest, how time plays a part in dealing with interest, and how to find the interest rate.

11. Compounding Interest Formulas: Calculations & Examples
Compound interest refers to interest calculated on both the principal amount of a loan or investment as well as on the accumulated interest. Learn about compounding interest formulas, review the calculations, and work examples. Understand the difference between simple and compound interest, and recognize the importance of the order of operations in calculating compound interest.

12. How to Calculate Shipping & Handling
Shipping and handling fees are more than just the cost of the business to ship an item to a customer. Discover the details of packaging, shipping, and handling costs that are used to calculate the total cost.

13. How to Calculate a Tip
A tip is typically a percentage of a total cost, and they are given in appreciation of a service. Explore how to calculate a tip including taxes and the total cost of a bill through mental math calculations.

14. Item Unit Price & Total Cost: Calculations & Examples
Businesses need to understand the relationship between unit prices and total costs to balance expenses and revenue. Learn the details of item unit price, overhead costs, production costs, and total costs that businesses calculate through examples.
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Other Chapters
Other chapters within the NES Middle Grades Mathematics (203): Practice & Study Guide course
- About the NES Test
- NES Middle Grades Math: Basic Arithmetic Operations
- NES Middle Grades Math: Solving Word Problems
- NES Middle Grades Math: Properties of Numbers
- NES Middle Grades Math: Estimating & Rounding
- NES Middle Grades Math: Number Theory
- NES Middle Grades Math: Roots & Radical Expressions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Exponents & Exponential Expressions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Simplifying Expressions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Integers
- NES Middle Grades Math: Rational Numbers
- NES Middle Grades Math: Introduction to Fractions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Operations with Fractions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Introduction to Decimals
- NES Middle Grades Math: Operations with Decimals
- NES Middle Grades Math: Percents
- NES Middle Grades Math: Number Patterns & Sequences
- NES Middle Grades Math: Properties of Functions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Graphing Functions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Negative Numbers
- NES Middle Grades Math: Absolute Value
- NES Middle Grades Math: Inequalities
- NES Middle Grades Math: Factoring
- NES Middle Grades Math: Monomials & Polynomials
- NES Middle Grades Math: Writing Algebraic Expressions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Basic Algebraic Expressions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Algebraic Distribution
- NES Middle Grades Math: One-Step Equations
- NES Middle Grades Math: Two-Step Equations
- NES Middle Grades Math: Rational Expressions
- NES Middle Grades Math: The Coordinate Graph
- NES Middle Grades Math: Linear Equations
- NES Middle Grades Math: Systems of Linear Equations
- NES Middle Grades Math: Rates, Ratios & Proportions
- NES Middle Grades Math: Measurement
- NES Middle Grades Math: Perimeter & Area
- NES Middle Grades Math: Polyhedrons & Geometric Solids
- NES Middle Grades Math: Symmetry, Similarity & Congruence
- NES Middle Grades Math: Properties of Lines
- NES Middle Grades Math: Angles
- NES Middle Grades Math: Triangles
- NES Middle Grades Math: Triangle Theorems & Proofs
- NES Middle Grades Math: Similar Polygons
- NES Middle Grades Math: The Pythagorean Theorem
- NES Middle Grades Math: Quadrilaterals
- NES Middle Grades Math: Circles
- NES Middle Grades Math: Circular Arcs & Measurement
- NES Middle Grades Math: Transformations
- NES Middle Grades Math: Data & Graphs
- Reasoning & Data Analysis
- NES Middle Grades Math: Statistics
- NES Middle Grades Math: Data Collection
- NES Middle Grades Math: Samples & Populations
- NES Middle Grades Math: Probability
- NES Middle Grades Math: Sets
- NES Middle Grades Mathematics Flashcards