Calculating Energy

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Paying at the Pump

From the Source to the Pump

Calculating the Costs

Filling Up - Knowing your Options

Objective:  Students will learn some of the components involved in gas prices and use this knowledge to complete the worksheet 

Skills:  Interpreting a chart, calculating price differences and percentages

Objective:  To inform students about transporting oil by having them complete the worksheet

Skills:  Reading for information, problem solving

Objective:  Students will learn about factors that are important when selecting a car by reading the worksheet and completing the answers

Skills:  Analytical thinking, comparing mathematical quantities

Skills: Predicting, collecting and interpreting data, comparing, drawing conclusions