
Week: 10
The Cost of a Personal Injury
Week Overview
Through scenarios involving personal injury lawsuits, students learn how to quantify abstract concepts such as pain and suffering. Using real-world examples, including a meteorologist’s error and celebrity injuries, they calculate compensation using mathematical formulas and evaluate fairness in settlements. This lesson connects math to ethics, decision-making, and law (aligned with standards 3.CA.7 and 4.CA.6), fostering an understanding of how numbers influence justice.