Taxes provide Practical High School Math and Sociology Assignment
An incredibly practical high-school math (and social studies) assignment would be to do the current year’s taxes based on an income of $150,000 for a family of four with a child in college. Talk about a STEM spin on Hasbro’s game of LIFE! Perhaps the resulting discussion will result in a simpler and more equitable tax system in which the rich cannot avoid paying their intended %age, though it may not happen in my lifetime ;-)
[#IMNAHO (in my not always humble opinion), we should have a flat tax with exceptions for low- rather than high-income earners. Think about it. It’d be ONE page. You earned this, you pay this. It’s far from perfect, but the US would make more off taxes under this scenario than they are with all the loopholes rich people (and companies like Amazon) take advantage of these days. Plus, the IRS could provide real oversight bc they’d actually understand the tax code, themselves. As for the accountants, there are a lot of $ things besides taxes that very much need accounting for.]
Check out these taxes-based high-school lesson plans:
https://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/teacher/
https://www.tdbank.com/wowzone/lessons/Gr9-12Lesson9.pdf
https://www.usa.gov/taxes-lesson-plan
A quick internet search provides many more.
