1.9.A
The Standard
define money earned as income
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Mathematics
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect paid work with the money a person receives. They use the word income and distinguish it from gifts, borrowing, or spending.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify when someone receives money for work. The student can sort examples into income and not income, then explain each choice.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every kind of money, including gifts or borrowed money, is income. They may also confuse income with money spent on needs or wants.
How to Assess It
- Ask: “Mia gets $5 for washing a car and $5 as a birthday gift. Which $5 is income, and why?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards showing paid work, gifts, and purchases, then have them sort the cards into income and not income.
Ask students to write or discuss: “What work could someone do to receive income?”
Play scenario corners, where students hear a money situation and move to either the income corner or not income corner.
Assign classroom jobs with play money payments, then have students record the income they receive for completing each job.
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Related Standards
- K.9.A
identify ways to earn income
- K.9.B
differentiate between money received as income and money received as gifts
- 7.13.A
calculate the sales tax for a given purchase and calculate income tax for earned wages
- 1.9.B
identify income as a means of obtaining goods and services, oftentimes making choices between wants and needs
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