We use the derivative to determine the maximum and minimum values of particular functions (e.g. cost, strength, amount of material used in a building, profit, loss, etc.).Differentiation is also used in analysis of finance and economics.

Break-Even analysis and the effect of changing Fixed costs, Variable Costs, and Selling price on Profit/Loss

Try to move points (one at a time) C, B, and D C for a change in fixed cost B for a change in selling price D fora change in variable cost

This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and agriculture sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.

Give a customer the correct amount of cash back in all "big bills."

Learn the very basics of managing money as well as strategies for saving, budgeting, retirement and more

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Contains files to print and play SEEK!, a card game to help students improve their information literacy - in particular, the ability to construct a search strategy.

This is a solver for problems involving the time value of money (TVM). It emulates the TVM solver on the TI-83+ and TI-84 graphing calculators. Updated 6 November 2011 to work correctly when I% = 0.