8th Grade Math - Saving for College
- Aaron Daffern
- Aug 24, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 6, 2024
This post explains and gives practice opportunities related to TEKS 8.12G:
estimate the cost of a two-year and four-year college education, including family contribution, and devise a periodic savings plan for accumulating the money needed to contribute to the total cost of attendance for at least the first year of college
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Instruction
Students build on their previous knowledge of saving for college and use it to calculate the cost needed for multiple years of attendance.
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STAAR Practice
Between 2016 and 2024 (including redesign practice), this supporting standard has been tested 6 times on the STAAR test. Videos explaining the problems can be found below. If you'd rather take a quiz over these questions, click here. The videos below are linked to the questions in the quiz as answer explanations after the quiz is submitted.
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