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Grade 9-12
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Lesson
The Mathematics Behind Progressive, Regressive, and Proportional Taxes
Objective
Students will be able to:
- Define proportional, progressive and regressive taxes.
- Create equations from a table or a graph to represent relationships between income and tax.
- Represent average tax ratio as an equation in two or more variables.
- Explain how the average tax ratio changes for different tax structures as income increases.
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In this personal finance lesson, students will explore graphs to analyze the impact of different tax structures on families.
Resources
Procedure
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