This resource has students making sense of data tracking the history of the cost of bread in the US and the history of the Federal minimum wage. There are options of sense-making activities for teachers to choose from. This set of activities is a great opportunity for teachers to integrate math and social studies.

All the materials for this problem are available in this Google folder. Read on for recommendations for teaching this problem.

This lesson now includes translated graphs, slides, and handouts translated to Spanish (see link above). Thank you to Jose Adorno and Connie Rivera from Connecticut adult education.