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Who Gets How Much?
How can we use proportions to
investigate poverty in the world?
Objectives
• Students will be able to determine the
percent wealth and population of various
geographic regions by using proportions
• Students will be able to determine which
regions are more or less wealthy by
comparing the wealth and population
What Do You Think?
1.How many people do you think are
living on this planet?
2.How much wealth do you think the
people of the world have all together?
3.Which region(s) do you think are the
richest? Which region(s) do you think
are the poorest?
India
India
India
India
India
Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
England
England
England
England
Is Wealth Equally Distributed?
• How do we define wealth?
–The Gross Domestic Product (GDP):
how much money the region
spends
• How do we compare the regions?
• How do we know which region is
more wealthy?
World Population & Wealth
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
Geographic
Region
Population
% of
World
Pop.
Our class
has
_______
Wealth (GDP)
% of
World
GDP
# of
Treats out
of ____
Africa
934,000,000
2,092,000,000,000
4,001,000,000
21,504,000,000,000
Oceania
34,000,000
737,000,000,000
Europe
730,000,000
14,244,000,000,000
U.S. and
Canada
335,000,000
12,776,000,000,000
Latin
America
568,000,000
4,300,000,000,000
TOTAL
6,602,000,000
Asia
100 %
55,653,000,000,000
100 %
H
I
Exit Slip – Day 1
Think about what regions you thought
were wealthy and poor at first, and
what you understand now.
How did mathematics help us
understand which regions were rich
and which were poor?
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Percent of People Living on Less than $2 a day
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