4. What is the role or the importance of money in the problem?
Well, we are talking about adult learners here, and we try to make everything
that we do in the classroom relevant to an adult's lifestyle. In
everyone's adult life money is important, so money is usually—some
aspect of money—is usually a part of all the problems that
we do in class. In this particular problem, the money that each
of the students had to work with was a lesson in budgeting. There
were certain activities that needed to be done and certain bills
that had to be paid. All of these were math lessons. Working with
money is something that everyone will do in their lifetime. We also
worked with technology—calculators, cash registers, that sort
of thing—which are also job skills, competencies that people
will need in their real life away from the classroom in addition
to being able to use those competencies and skills to pass the GED.
