Future Success

My class has been working on a project called Putting a Down Payment On Future Success.This project is important because it helps us have an idea of what to expect in the future and it lets us use math in the real world. For example, we had to look for an apartment on the Internet and look for the monthly rent, we also calculated all of our fixed expenses and saw how much we were able to save in one year. It gave me an idea of what to expect in the future because we had to choose a profession and find out the tuition for how many years you have to go to college. My profession is a Dentist and i had to undergo 4 years of undergrad + 4 years of Dental school. I will also be attending the university of Pennsylvania. Knowing this information, i have an idea of were i want to go for college and how much it may cost when i get there. That's how this project helped me. It also gave me more practice in multiplying decimals and finding percents. The most useful thing i learned while doing this project was that
taxes are when the government takes a certain percent of what a person makes annually for people who are less fortunate. Moreover, this project was very important because it taught me a lot of different thing that i never knew before.