Objective
Students will be able to:
- Explain the relationship between a country’s real gross domestic product per capita and its standard of living.
- Manipulate the units, scales, and origin in a graph to support a given statement.
- Analyze a graph to determine whether or not it is misleading.
Concepts
In this personal finance lesson, students will understand how graphs can be misleading through real GDP.
Resources
Procedure
Click NEARPOD VERSION: WHEN GRAPHS MISLEAD US PART 1 and NEARPOD VERSION: WHEN GRAPHS MISLEAD US PART 2 to access an interactive version of the lesson powered by Nearpod: students interact and respond to questions on their device, and teachers will see their responses in real time!