Rates of pay using financial algebra skills task cards

Resource Description

Understanding hourly rates and rates of pay can be a challenge, but your Consumer and Financial Maths, Life Skills and Transition students will love using these new editable task cards to build their pay calculation skills as well as their employment readiness skills!

The 24 task cards support hourly rates of pay and basic financial calculations to understand how hourly rate, hours worked and total income relate to each other.

This is Set 1 of the Financial Algebra series.

Set 1 includes...

• 24 editable and printable task cards with colour border
• 24 editable and printable task cards with black and white border
• Answer key
• Audio included with each card

Note: There are 24 unique cards, with 2 printing options for the set - colour or black and white.

Here's how...

Print the cards for in class use. Share them with individuals, pairs or small groups. Allow time for solving the card, then swap and compare answers. Check work against the answer key.

Use the cards as a digital version in PPT to access the audio for each task card. This is a great option for remote learning and to provide audio support for learners as needed.

Fundamental skills and knowledge...

•Reading worded problems

•Calculating total pay from an hourly rate and number of hours worked

•Calculating hourly rate from total pay and number of hours worked

•Calculating hours worked from total pay and hourly rate

•Adding hours worked on multiple days or shifts to find total hours

Example

Simon is a childcare worker.

He works for 4 hours, once a week.

His pay is $18 an hour.

How much does he earn in one week?

Rick is a windsurf instructor.

He earns $400 for 4 Saturday shifts of 4 hours each.

What is his hourly rate?

Terms of use

Please enjoy using these cards with your own students in your class or group, or across your own set of students. You may modify the font size, style and colour to support the learning needs of individual students as required.

Please encourage other teachers to purchase their own set or buy an additional licence. Do not upload onto a share drive or social media group folder. Do not resell this resource.