Lesson 1-9 Wages and Salaries #2
General Outcome(s): Develop number sense and critical thinking skills
Specific Outcome(s): Number # 1.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these
for employee and employer? Make a list on the smartboard. You can finish up by talking about
overtime, both time and a half and double time.
2 – Demonstrate an understanding of income, including: wages, salary, contracts, commissions,
piecework to calculate gross pay and net pay.
Required Materials: Whiteboards, whiteboard markers, windows, smartboard
Corresponding Text: MathWorks 10 Page 54-62
Anticipatory Set:
Last class we discussed the lowest wage in Alberta. Can you guess at what you think the
highest wage is?
Solution: 15% of Canadians in the highest income group (over $250000/year) live in Alberta.
Procedures:
1. Have students pickup their time sheets and fill in the date and the start time. Each
Monday, they also choose a new occupation from the occupation cards and list the
occupation and the wage on their time sheet.
2. Drill and Practice: 1.3 Setting a Price pg 8 #1-3.
3. Ask those students who are working or have worked how much they make in a pay
period and how often they get paid. (If they want to reveal that information). Ask the
students if the amount they are saying is how much they actually made or what was put
into their bank accounts or given to them by pay cheque. Is this amount different and
why?
4. Define Gross Pay or Gross Earnings from the notes and show 2 examples of different
paystubs to show what gross pay is. Tell the students we will be dealing with the rest of
the pay stub in the near future.
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these for employee and employer?
Make a list on the smartboard. You can finish up by talking about overtime, both time
and a half and double time.
6. Go through examples of each of the types of overtime.
7. Independent Practice
Homework sheet 6/7.
8. Students fill in the end time and the total minutes for the class. If it is Friday, they also
fill in the total minutes for the week and convert this to work hours using the ratio ten
mins of class time equals 1 hour of work time. Gross weekly pay is also calculated each
Friday.