Our Consumer Math course provides a full credit of high school Math. This curriculum applies the math principles your student has learned already to real life situations they will encounter, while also framing everything with a biblical perspective.
Throughout this course, your student will engage in and learn to solve the kind of math problems that come up in real life. Consumer Math helps them understand the value of stewarding their money wisely and gives them practice comparing and calculating prices in order to make the best choice for their budget.
Budgeting and understanding income versus expenses is a huge hurdle for young adults today. Consumer Math breaks this down, helping students to evaluate what financial responsibility looks like and preparing them to approach life from the perspective of wisely stewarding what God has graciously given them.
Various types of income including commission, hourly wages, and tips are described in detail and immediately followed with a practical application. Students are then challenged to apply what they've learned, seeing exactly how these concepts apply to and affect their lives.
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Consumer Math Unboxing and Flipthrough || Not Consumed Ministries
by Life in the Mundane, April 2024
God has blessed the Not Consumed team with a great deal of education (including a variety of degrees) and decades of combined homeschool experience. Several team members have subject specific degrees or master's degrees in education, specifically curriculum design.
I believe that the Bible is the absolute authority in matters of faith and practice. It's 100% true, with no exceptions or figurative sections. I believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of Scripture; in one God eternally existing in three Persons; in the creation of all things, including man, as the direct act of God; in eternally secure salvation by grace through faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the incarnation and virgin birth of Christ, and in His bodily resurrection; in the personal, bodily, premillennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ and His millennial reign on earth.
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Students preparing to take Consumer Math should have completed middle school math and have a solid understanding of basic math concepts such as multiplication, division, percentages, fractions, and decimals. We do not recommend starting Consumer Math prior to 9th grade. We recommend taking this during the 11th or 12th grade since it is primarily based on real life scenarios. Completing the course as close to the time to use those skills would be most beneficial.
Consumer Math is an independent learning-based course and does not require a teacher’s manual. A digital Answer Key that can be downloaded to your device is available. The Answer Key includes parent instructions, project grading checklists, and calculation answers.
There are many similar topics covered in both subjects. However, the course was designed as a consumer math course, so you may find some topics covered at different levels than expected in a personal finance course.
There are 22 independent projects within the course that are similar to an assessment of the material because students have to apply what they have learned to complete the project accurately. Grading checklists are provided in the Answer Key.
Consumer Math has 239 pages, covers 16 different units, and includes 22 projects.
Lessons should be completed 4-5 times per week. Lessons should take one day, while projects can range from 2-7 days. Each project has a golden badge with the recommended number of days for completion.
Consumer Math is written using USD (United States Dollar), traditional US savings and retirement terms, and the American customary measurements of inches, feet, yards, and miles, which affects many of the word problems in the text. Students are given opportunities to research various costs of items in their area for projects.
This math is an excellent course to teach your child practical concepts and principles they will need and use in life. I was very pleased that it begins each chapter with a Bible lesson of how the math they will be learning applies to the Word of God. My 11th grade son has been using it for a couple weeks, likes it and is doing well with it, what a difference from past years of stressful math curriculums. Thank you to the families of Not Consumed who put out this wonderful practical math curriculum and offer it at such a reasonable price!
I wanted to give our 11th grader something different and practical for math this year. There aren’t many up-to-date consumer math programs out there, so I was thrilled to find this great resource! She tells her friends about what she is doing and practicing for math and they say they wish they could have a useful curriculum. This program teaches applicable, practical concepts that will actually help my daughter in life.
I truly love how this curriculum weaves God throughout the pages. I like how the questions make the student think about their future goals and different scenarios they may face.
Math class in our homeschool has always been a struggle. We have tried many programs with our high schoolers through the years, and most of them ended with a frustrated or tearful child. This is the first time one of my children has come to me and actually said they like their math curriculum. This has been such a blessing. We will definitely be using this course with our other children .
My daughter has completed 3 out of 4 of her math credits and I was so excited to find this as her final credit! She is worried about how she will understand so many "adult" things and this has been great to walk her through life skills and economics through a biblical perspective. I'm so happy to have found this book!
I am so so impressed with this curriculum! This Consumer Math is packed with everything teens need to know to live independently after graduation. I really like the idea of the projects in the book which will be great hands on learning. I didn't realize this was geared for 10th grade and above, so we will wait to use this during the 25-26 homeschool year. In the meantime, we'll use it as a reference book since my son is working this summer and the tax info will be useful to him. Thank you so much Not Consumed!
I love this curriculum for consumer math. I got it for my rising senior after comparing several programs. This one has all the areas I want to focus on along with a Biblical worldview. I can’t wait to go through it with my son.
So excited to be doing this math with my high school son this year. It is filled with so much good information that will be beneficial to him for the rest of his life. I love Not Consumed products and how she always incorporates godly wisdom in all she creates!!
I ordered this curriculum in lat May and received it a couple weeks later in June. I'm patiently waiting until our school year starts in August to dive in. It looks to be exactly what I've been looking for to use with my 2 high school girls.
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