Base Breakers

A comprehensive 3-week business mathematics unit focused on real-world compensation structures, payroll systems, and digital spreadsheet modeling. Students learn to calculate straight-time, overtime, piecework, salary, and commission while building a functional business payroll sheet.

A comprehensive 9-week high school syllabus for Business Math aligned to EVSC standards, featuring a daily schedule for 70-minute classes, 3 units of study, project outlines, and scheduled test dates leading to a final on October 8th.

A comprehensive, highly detailed 3-page printable syllabus for high school Business Math, aligned with EVSC standards. It features class expectations, grading breakdowns, unit outlines, individual unit projects, vocabulary keys, and a complete daily calendar for the entire 9-week course ending on October 8, 2026.

A three-day high school mathematics icebreaker sequence designed to reduce math anxiety, build collaborative relationships, and introduce short-form video storyboarding through data collection, interactive logic puzzles, and personal reflection.

Focuses on reading timecards, decoding daily shift start and end punches, calculating total working elapsed times, and converting minutes into decimal hours using the divide-by-60 rule.

A 1-page printable active scavenger hunt card sheet where students stand up and walk around the classroom to find wall-mounted employee punch-cards, record raw times, and compute decimal hours. Great for kinesthetic learning in 70-minute classes.

A highly visual, scaffolded mathematics progression spanning foundational visual fractions through modified quadratic models. Designed for middle school students needing concrete graphic organizers, functional real-world connections, and simplified numbers.

Introduces regular hourly rate compensation, standard full-time workweek caps, and calculating gross straight-time pay using known decimal hours.

A comprehensive 2-page print-ready cumulative exam review sheet. Page 1 consolidates formulas, calendars, and quarter-hour decimal directories, and Page 2 hosts a diagnostic 6-problem trial run (one of each compensation type studied).

A high-interest, scaffolded 4-day refresher sequence designed for alternative high school students to master the intersection of basic algebra and geometry. Students leverage visual clues on lines and rays to build, solve, and check simple equations for unknown angle measures.

Investigates commission models including straight, graduated, and combined salary-plus-commission models. Students complete a research log investigating industry commission rates.

A 1-page printable tech-based practice worksheet, where students analyze a spreadsheet GUI model on paper and write precise Excel/Sheets formulas to automate payroll runs.