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Buying and Owning a Home: Monthly Budget Worksheet
In this personal finance worksheet, students complete the graphic organizer as they chart the 40 listed monthly expenses for 2 months.
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Financial Planning
Students research possible careers. They determine typical starting income for the career. Using collected information, students develop a budget for their starting income. Students consider car payments and research the process of...
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Budgeting and Travel
Students plan a trip to the Olympics. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students are given a worksheet describing the cost of necessities for their trip. Students are given a balance and must purchase airline...
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Balancing a Budget
Students calculate living expenses for a non-traditional career choice. They examine interest, balancing a checkbook, and financing cars and homes.
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Practice With Decimals
In this decimal worksheet, students solve decimal problems, estimating, balancing a checkbook, and finding the cost of a car using a given chart.
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If Horatio Drove Today
Students analyze and calculate expenses using the historic Horatio's road trip.
Mathematics is taught using a cross curricular approach.
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Money Matters
Pupils explore the concept of money. In this money instructional activity, students role play an economy. Pupils are divided into three categories- the money factory, construction workers, and the grocery store. Students work...
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Make It Happen: Saving for a Rainy Day
Every little penny counts, especially when it comes to saving for emergencies or long-term goals. Pupils evaluate different saving and investment strategies, such as a CD or money market account, through worksheets and by researching...
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Higher Gasoline Prices: Temporary or Time to Buy a Hybrid?
Gasoline prices garner a lot of attention in the United States. What can explain a temporary decline in gasoline consumption, and how do gasoline prices spur innovation in the energy and automotive industries?
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Importance and History of Ecological Conservation
Discuss and analyze a variety of information regarding the history of ecological conservation and preservation, as well as its importance. Scholars work in groups to complete four different activities, then report back to the class for a...
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Money Management Part III: Savings Accounts and Cash vs. Credit
Help your class understand the importance of saving and managing their money. Here is part three to a unit on credit, cash, and savings. Learners discuss savings accounts and the idea that a budget plan can help them avoid costly credit...
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Who Wants to Spend $20,000?
Who wouldn't want $20,000 to spend? But, the question becomes, what do you spend it on? Learners discuss loans, interest, and making adult-like financial decisions. They role-play a scenario that depicts the choices of a girl who took...
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Plan a Vacation
Challenge scholars to plan a vacation with a $5,000 budget. Learners review costs of transportation, meals, and entertainment while considering the number of people and destination. Worksheets provide information and well-organized...
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"Reality Math: Fact or Fiction"
Students investigate the use of math in everyday life. They investigate several occupations and pay scales. They complete spreadsheets that show how monthly bills can be organized using technology. They use word processing software to...
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Measures of Center
In this statistics worksheet, students find mean, median, and mode for 3 problems. They find the mean of summarized data in 2 problems.
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Gas Money
High schoolers write, edit and produce resum??s and cover letters in final form.
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European Vacation
Ninth graders work in groups of two or three to plan a trip through Europe. They present a storyboard for approval, outlining their graphics and display pages. They present their trip to the class using PowerPoint. This is displayed...
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Idiom Quizzes C
In this recognizing idioms online/interactive instructional activity, students read sentences with expressions in brackets and choose the idioms beginning with the letter "c" to replace those in the brackets. Students choose 45 idioms.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Fat Cats Living off the High Hog
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon that uses an idiom to convey its meaning. Students respond to 4 talking point questions.
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TAKS Math Quiz-Currency Problems
In this TAKS math quiz learning exercise, students take an online quiz focused on problems using currency. Quiz may be graded online by clicking a link.
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My Test Book: Reading Pie Charts
In this math skills learning exercise, students solve 9 multiple choice math problems that require them to read and interpret charts. Students may view the correct answers.
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Problem Solving: Estimate or Exact?
In this number sense learning exercise, 5th graders solve 6 word problems and explain why the answer makes sense. They use either estimated numbers or exact numbers as they solve the problems.
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Addition and Subtraction: By Checkbook
Students develop an understanding of the need for adding and subtraction skills in balancing a checkbook.
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Coast to Coast Virtual Trip
Learners complete a variety of exercises and activities as they plan a coast to coast trip across America. They keep a journal that includes where they went, what they did, what they saw, etc. They compare two cities they visited along...