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PLS 3rd Learning

It Costs How Much!?!?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Many teens conjure up images of how great their first apartment will be, but they lack a solid understanding of what it will cost to make it look that way. To gain an appreciation for the cost of furnishings, they create a collage of a...
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Illustrative Mathematics

The Price of Bread

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
As part of an initiative to strengthen our young adults' financial understanding, this problem explores the cost of bread and minimum wage since the 1930s. Learners are asked to find the percent increase from each year and compare it...
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PBL Pathways

Total Cost to Produce the Turbo Blender

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Class members blend their knowledge of functions and problem-solving skills to provide business advice to the Turbo Blender manufacturers. Through a project-based approach, learners examine marginal cost data to produce a function. They...
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Curated OER

Calculating the Cost of Living

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bring Consumer Mathematics and Economics to life with this activity, where learners investigate personal finance and budgeting. They use the newspaper’s classified section to determine a future job and potential earnings and determine a...
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Curated OER

Common Procedure Costs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Kids never think about the cost of medical expenses, because they never think they'll get hurt. To better understand personal financial planning, learners research common medical procedures and their costs. They use a worksheet and the...
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Curated OER

How Much Does Soap Cost?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Explore multiplication and division using real life problems, including how to find the cost of soap per bar. Individuals or small groups work to find answers. They then share with the class how they found their answer.
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Consumers Energy

The Cost of Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How much is your toaster costing you every day? Young environmentalists calculate the monetary costs of household appliances based on their average consumption of wattage.
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Activity
PBL Pathways

College Costs

For Students 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Predict the year that college costs will double in your state using linear modeling. The first part of this two-part project based learning activity asks young mathematicians to use data from the College Board. They graph the data, write...
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Curated OER

Homer Price

For Teachers 4th - 6th
An engaging and unique lesson that combines literature and economics is here for you. In it, learners read the short story, "The Doghnuts" found in  the book Homer Price. Pupils define "capital resources," and utilize a worksheet...
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PLS 3rd Learning

Monthly Budget & Operating Costs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What teenager wouldn't want a car? But before they make that big purchase, this exercise helps them to understand the costs involved. It includes a worksheet to calculate expenses like taxes and fees, maintenance, gas and insurance, as...
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Center for Civic Education

The Power of Nonviolence: What Is Nonviolence? What Does It Cost?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Your young learners will delve into the language of primary source documents in order to identify the characteristics, benefits, and costs of nonviolence. The lesson includes a mix of activities, including an anticipatory activity,...
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Carolina K-12

Sample Test: Economics

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
From scarcity and marginal benefits and costs to economic systems and GDP, this 22-question multiple choice test covers some of the most fundamental concepts of economics.
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Sharing Costs Equitably: Traveling to School

For Teachers 6th Standards
Drive or take the school bus? Class members determine the amount each student would have to pay in a carpool situation. They then evaluate  the cost in a set of provided examples. I think I'd rather take the school bus! 
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Code.org

The Cost of "Free"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Explore the trade-offs of using a free app. The fourth installment of a 12-part unit helps young consumers discover the cost of receiving a free service. They learn how these apps make use of their access to data.
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Museum of Tolerance

The Price of Personal Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A reading of Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention," Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" launch a discussion about the price one is willing to pay to...
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Balanced Assessment

Cost of Living

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Math scholars investigate the cost of living in Hong Kong compared to Chicago but must first convert the different types of currency. They then choose a type of graph to compare different spending categories and finish the activity by...
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Curated OER

Opportunity Knocks, But It Costs, Too!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a reflection piece, outlining each of the decision-making steps they have used and what decision they have decided upon, which includes possible solutions, as well as possible outcomes for each solution. They also...
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Curated OER

Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Alcoholism affects more people than your high schoolers might think. Whether they have any personal experience with alcoholics or if this world is entirely unfamiliar with them, they'll get a closer glimpse with the descriptive essay...
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Lincoln Public Schools

Cereal Box Project

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...
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PBL Pathways

Arsenic and Selenium Removal From Drinking Water at a Minimal Cost

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Decide on the most efficient plan to supply drinking water. The second project-based learning task in a two-part series builds upon the first project. Pupils revisit the wells to supply drinking water, but they must make sure the...
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Curated OER

Rates And Unit Price

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this rates and unit price worksheet, students problem solve and calculate the answers to ten word problems and mathematical equations dealing with ratios, proportion and missing values.
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Curated OER

Falcon's Fruit Stand: Cost of Merchandise Sold

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, explore the Cost of Merchandise Sold by using a box of Runts candy and 3 snack Ziploc bags.
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Curated OER

Which Brand of Air Freshener is Most Cost Effective?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students use scientific method to determine cost-effectiveness of air freshener, and create PowerPoint presentations to share their results.
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Curated OER

Cost Effective Buying

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate energy-related purchases. In this consumer awareness lesson plan, students visit an appliance store and rank the products' cost effectiveness by using a mathematical formula.

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