Lesson: Teaching Ratios with Global Currencies

By Jessica Barber | September 6, 2018 |

Source: Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

Created by: Danielle Heeney, Penn Treaty School

Subjects: Math, Social Studies

Grade Levels: 5-8

Overview: In this lesson, students explore foreign currencies while learning about the mathematics skill of manipulating ratios.

Objectives: Students will be able to convert between US Dollars and Moroccan Dirham by using ratios.

The Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

This lesson is one of 29 lessons (K-12, all subjects) in the Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit. The goal of the Tool Kit is to help educators and their students develop a transnational analysis in their classrooms by using complex themes of world heritage as a framework to understand global regions across disciplines. These themes include shared architectural, cultural, economic, environmental, political, recreational, religious, and social heritage features. Real teachers created these lessons and based their work on “best practices” that reflect student collaboration and the broad goals of young people in ways that support care and understanding of others who may be very different in background and history.

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