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From Grove to You | Florida Agriculture in the Classroom (FAITC) Brief Description: Students will trace the production of oranges from the grove to the store as fresh fruit and as juice. Students will become citrus growers and join a co-op to determine the best ways to market and sell their fruit. Objectives: Students will be able to: Identify steps of citrus production from the tree to the store.Calculate the acreage needed for a citrus grove based on a real-life example.Describe the purpose, structure and function of a cooperative.Use the Internet to obtain information about orange juice production. Time: Two, 45 minute class periods, plus time for Internet research Downloads:

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The 2014 Tax Brackets Introduction Every year, the IRS adjusts more than forty tax provisions for inflation. This is done to prevent what is called “bracket creep.” This is the phenomenon by which people are pushed into higher income tax brackets or have reduced value from credits or deductions due to inflation instead of any increase in real income. The IRS uses the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to calculate the past year’s inflation and adjusts income thresholds, deduction amounts, and credit values accordingly. Income Tax Brackets and Rates In 2014, the income limits for all brackets and all filers will be adjusted for inflation and will be as follows (Table 1).[1] The top marginal income tax rate of 39.6 percent will hit taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of $406,751 and higher for single filers and $457,601 and higher for married filers. Source: Internal Revenue Service Standard Deduction and Personal Exemption The standard deduction will increase by $100 from $6,100 to $6,200 for singles (Table 2).

From Canes to Grains | Florida Agriculture in the Classroom (FAITC) Brief Description Students will trace the production of sugar from the field (sugar canes) to the granulated sugar (grains of sugar) in writing and with a flow chart, exploring this topic on the Internet. Students will solve real-world mathematics problems involving measurements and real-world data. Objectives: Students will be able to: Identify and describe the chemical and physical changes in the production of sugar.Convert units of measure in a recipe.Use the Internet to obtain information about sugar production. Time 3, 45 minute class periods, plus time for Internet research Downloads

Khan Academy When Work Is Punished: The Tragedy Of America's Welfare State Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased progressive media outlets (who are quite adept at creating and taking down their own strawmen arguments, if not quite as adept at using an abacus, let alone a calculator) took offense at our article "In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of Four Making Minimum Wage Has More Disposable Income Than A Family Making $60,000 A Year." In it we merely explained what has become the painful reality in America: for increasingly more it is now more lucrative - in the form of actual disposable income - to sit, do nothing, and collect various welfare entitlements, than to work. This is graphically, and very painfully confirmed, in the below chart from Gary Alexander, Secretary of Public Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (a state best known for its broke capital Harrisburg). But perhaps the scariest chart in the entire presentation is the following summarizing the unsustainable welfare burden on current taxpayers:

Florida’s Ag Cash Receipts | Florida Agriculture in the Classroom (FAITC) Brief Description: Students will examine the economic importance of agriculture to the state of Florida by examining and manipulating data in several ways. Florida’s Agricultural Cash Receipts will analyze the production and value of Florida’s field crops, Florida’s livestock cash receipts, and dairy products. Objectives: Students will be able to: Identify the significance of agriculture to Florida’s economy.Interpret agricultural data to create line graphs and histograms (bar graphs).Construct line graphs to show variations in livestock cash receipts.Create a pie chart of livestock cash receipt percentages.Choose the appropriate operation, multiplication or division, to complete the data of field crops. Time: Activity One:45 to 60 minutes Activity Two: Two, 45 to 60 minute class periods Activity Three: Two, 45 to 60 minute class periods Downloads:

Computational Skills for Biology Students June 2006 Why is it important to develop computer savvy students of biology? Understanding quantitative research is critical to grasping biology. A good fraction of modern biology is heavily quantitative. Photo: Microsoft Images. Gross: A good fraction of modern biology is heavily quantitative, and one of the main complaints that I have heard for a very long time from biologists is that students do not have the capability to carry out the basic quantitative research that is critical to all modern biology across the spectrum. Graphing is a required basic skill. One of the most distressing comments has been about the simplest things: reading, interpreting, and producing graphs—simple graphs that students have seen again and again since they were in elementary and middle school. Perhaps the simplest illustration of this point is the basic way we communicate science, which requires a quantitative framework for understanding. How do teachers go about helping students become more computer savvy?