Math Lesson: Filling Out Tax Forms
Here is a math lesson I put together for the New York Times Learning Network that is built around parsing income information and properly filling out tax forms.
This lesson supplies students with cost-of-living scenarios and mocked-up W2 and 1099-INT forms and challenges them to work their way through Federal Form 1040EZ.
A few older students might like to try this, too!
2 Comments
Japheth Wood · April 25, 2011 at 11:36 am
Here’s my favorite IRS form:
“If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula . . .”
http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~djv/irs.pdf
MrHonner · April 25, 2011 at 11:43 am
That is hilarious! I bet an entire series could be created: “If the IRS discovered Mathematics…”
Thanks for sharing.