Watch Your Step
What should teacher salaries be based on?
Students will
- Estimate a rate of change (slope) from a graph and table of teacher salaries at various educational levels
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of paying teachers based on experience and educational attainment
- Model, using a graph, a new policy to pay teachers based on their students’ standardized test scores
- Propose and defend other functions to determine teachers’ salaries
Before you begin
Students should be able to determine a unit rate from a table or graph and be comfortable reading a multiple-line graph.Common Core Standards
Content Standards
Mathematical Practices
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Shoutouts
Key and Peele, NBC Nightly News, PBS NewsHour
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