Video summary
A good example of how complex calculations are relevant in everyday life.
A man wishes to buy a car on finance over three years.
He uses a formula to calculate his monthly payments at 5% interest, and the total he would pay over the three years.
On learning a car depreciates in value by around 8% a year, he calculates the value of the car by the end of his finance deal.
The calculations are shown in graphics on the screen.
The man discovers his payments would be around 拢800 a month and the car would depreciate in value by around a third, and makes the sensible decision to choose a less expensive car.
This is from the series: Real Life Maths.
Teacher Notes
Students could investigate their own affordability and budget; regarding different mobile packages or any other financial situations.
This could also be used to research in science, medicine and other situations where growth or decay can be measured over time.
Financial planning and investment can be based on 鈥淧roblem based learning鈥 and students could make inference and decisions about buying a car, financial growth in a company and loss of investment over time.
Students could use this opportunity to look at stocks and shares as part of project based work.
This clip will be relevant for teaching Maths at KS3/GCSE in England Wales and Northern Ireland. Also at National 4, 5 and Higher in Scotland.
This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA in Scotland.
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