This unit is designed to help students learn about community job responsibilities. It will also show them how math skills learned in the classroom transfer to their community. Learning Gap: Students have difficulty applying math skills to real life situations. Learning Standard: The student will recognize, represent, and model real numbers and operations verbally, physically, symbolically, and graphically. Learning Objectives: 1) Students will learn to keep a checkbook register. 2) Students will improve their math problem-solving skills. 3) The student will identify money values and write amounts of money. 4) The student will understand the principles of budgeting.