Commission, day 3

We finished out the packet on commission today. We will go over our last two quizzes and review tomorrow.

The test on Pay Scales will be Friday.

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Commission, day 2

We continued calculating gross pay based on commission or commission + salary. There is no homework tonight.

We will have a test on FRIDAY. So, we will review in class Thursday.

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Commission

We started calculating gross pay based on a commission pay scale today. Students worked through situations that had basic commission pay, tiered commission pay for higher sales, and commission + salary pay. We will continue working with this concept tomorrow.
We plan to review all of the gross pay scales on Thursday and have a test on Friday.

Homework: Page 156: #9 - 18

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Quiz

After a brief review of counting hours worked, expressing this result as a decimal and calculating gross pay from an hourly rate, the classes took a quiz with these concepts.

No homework this weekend. Enjoy!

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More Time worked

We continued working with totalling the amount of time that is worked. We work with quarter hours. If a given time is not presented as on quarter of the hour, then we round to the nearest quarter hour.

There will be a quiz tomorrow checking their understanding of this concept.

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Time Cards

We began class discussing the various ways people clock in and out of work: hand written times, cards "punched" at a clock, ID cards with magnetic strips swiped at a reader, etc. This led us to calculating elapsed time. For some students, this is difficult, especially when having to borrow, carry, or regroup time.

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More Overtime Pay

We fnished going over the packet of overtime pay calculations from Friday. Then, we started a new handout that continues our practice calculating time-and-a-half and double-time overtime pay.

Homework: students should finish the back of today's worksheet

The earliest date that we can have a test on gross pay will be Friday, September 25th. However, it might not happen until next week. The test will cover the following gross pay calculations:

• hourly
• salary
• piece-rate
• commission
• average
• overtime

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Overtime Pay

We discussed how overtime pay is typically calculated with a time-and-a-half or a double-time rate. We will practice with this concept more on Monday.

Homework: From yesterday, use job listings to find jobs offering the different pay scales.

Have a great weekend!

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Average Pay

Our notes today reviewed working with mean, median, and mode. We talked about how these different calculations may be important when considering wages. The students identified that wages based on commission and piece-rate can be variable for each pay-period, so knowing the average pay for those jobs may be important.

An assignment was passed out that is not due until Monday. The students need to use newsppaer or internet job listings to find jobs offering the different pay scales.

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Gross Pay Quiz

For today's shortened schedule we had a quiz. The problems were about calculating gross pay from hourly, salary, and piece-rate pay scales. Many students enjoyed finding their names worked into the problems.

There is no homework today. Tomorrow we will calculate average pay.

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Piece-Rate Pay

We discussed various examples of piece-rate pay: being paid by the lawn mowed, being paid by the cars washed, etc ... We calculated gross pay based on a piece-rate. We also calculated gross pay based on a piece-rate that has different levels for increased work completed.

Homework: Pages 57 and 58 in the textbook: #22 - 37.

Again, there will be a quiz tomorrow on gross pay calculated from hourly and piece-rate pay scales. Remember, tomorrow is an Early Release Day for Fulton County Schools!

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Pay Scales, day 1

We started a new unit today: Pay Scales. We discussed the following concepts:

• Gross Pay
• Salary
• Commission
• Piecework Pay

We discussed the various pay periods:

• Weekly
• Bi-weekly
• Monthly
• Semi-monthly
• Annually

We then calculated gross pay based on hourly pay and salary.

Homework: Book pages 55 and 56: #1 - 21

We will quiz on this topic (along with Piece-wise pay calculations) on Wednesday!

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Computer Lab day

Today, we went to the computer lab and accessed community.coin3.com. We researched a variety of careers and found useful information about each: how much math is needed, education level, average pay, etc ...

This lesson leads us into our next unit: Pay Scales.

There is no homework today. Have a great weekend!

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