tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4246418667558765155.post605901550920615814..comments2022-12-11T10:51:50.769+01:00Comments on Learning (by) Teaching: Simple and Compound interest: a sorting activityJulia Tsyganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04354702485097004759noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4246418667558765155.post-24975080081080712492019-11-28T13:57:30.923+01:002019-11-28T13:57:30.923+01:00I'll try to solve these problems. It's rea...I'll try to solve these problems. It's really worth sharing at a <a href="http://duyorreviewandtutorialcenter.ph/" rel="nofollow">tutorial center</a> where I'm teaching mathematics for elementary level.Oscarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12839551620004212288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4246418667558765155.post-54347587935936925592013-07-29T17:59:45.642+02:002013-07-29T17:59:45.642+02:00Nice. I never go as far back as Jesus, but I play ...Nice. I never go as far back as Jesus, but I play what I call my "morbid game" with them. I get them to take out all the money they have on them and we add up the class total. Then I say we are going to take all that money and invest it in an index fund tracking the market that normally averages bewteen 6 and 10%. The last one of us still alive gets all the money and the interest. (I add some amusing rules about not killing classmates to get the money, etc...) We have to talk about some assumptions like how long the second last one of us will live, and so on. Then they run the numbers. They are shocked. Even $50 at 8% for 80 years is huge. They are excited about how rich the 95 year old last one of them alive will be. Then we talk about inflation...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com