In this weekly blog post, the Curriculum team will highlight Just One Resource from our NGPF collection that maybe doesn't get the attention it deserves. Use it this week or bookmark it for later.

[The Resource]  CALCULATE: Your Tax Due

The Gist: Students learn how to calculate a person's taxable income and how their marginal tax rate is different than their effective tax rate!

The Best Parts:

• By calculating a person's taxable income, students understand how the standard deduction comes into play when determining how much they owe.
• Students understand the difference between marginal and effective tax rate by actually calculating the difference between the two for a variety of scenarios! 
• Bonus: There's an optional section to this activity that challenges students to demonstrate how end-of-year taxes translate into the paycheck they receive.

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Good news! We updated our Taxes unit to reflect the new tax legislation. Check out all of our Taxes Resources here. 

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Sonia Dalal

Sonia has always been passionate about instruction and improving students' learning experiences. She's come a long way since her days as a first grader, when she would "teach" music and read to her very attentive stuffed animals after school. Since then, she has taught students as a K-12 tutor, worked in several EdTech startups in the Bay Area, and completed her Ed.M in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is passionate about bringing the high quality personal finance content and instruction she wished she'd received in school to the next generation of students and educators. When she isn't crafting lesson guides or working with teachers, Sonia loves to spend her time singing, being outdoors, and adventuring with family and friends!