BMS students get
‘a million dollars’
PHOTO BY MARY CANNADAY
Bartow Midle School math teacher Beverly Pawley accepts a pretend giant check for a million dollars from Jeanette Wallace, an assistant vice president with Mid-Florida Credit Union, sponsors of the sixth grade math class's Million Dollar Project, by which the students will learn to track expenses, calculate percentages and other financial skills.
PHOTO BY MARY CANNADAY
Ryan Harbin, a student in Beverly Pawley's sixth grade math class at Bartow Middle School, concentrates on filling out a check register during the Million Dollar Project, a learning activity where the class collectively is learning how to calculate percentages and to spend money wisely, through having to decide how to best (fictionally) spend a million dollars. Mid-Forida Credit Union provided the supplies for the project.
It’s hard to decide what you would do with a million dollars, much less how to budget, track, and use the money wisely, but that’s what Beverly Pawley’s sixth-grade math class is learning to do.
Mid-Florida Credit Union donated checkbooks and other materials to the class at Bartow Middle School. Assistant Vice President of Community Relations Jeanette Wallace visited on kick-off day, when the students took out their checkbooks and learned how to fill out the various sections as well as recording transactions in their registers, a skill Pawley emphasized would help them keep track of their expenditures.
