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Touch Math

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using the touch math system, learners engage in activities to practice adding numbers. While the instructional activity is laid out in an explicit manner, there isn't a guide explaining the touch math system.
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Learn to Earn When you Tend to Spend

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Analyzing and understanding word problems is extremely important. Pupils learn that in money problems, earn usually means you add and spend usually means you subtract. They will solve a series of money-related word problems, label coins,...
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In Great Demand

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Focusing on supply and demand, learners discuss economic principles in this lesson related to Wisconsin. After discussing supply and demand, learners answer questions related to a pizza parlor. They talk about profit, as well as other...
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The Economics of National Craft Month

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Combine National Craft Month and economic math while producing some imaginative, innovative crafts.
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Money Booklet

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice handling money by examining different world currency.  In this economics instructional activity, students utilize a coin booklet to trace individual coins and draw bills, later coloring them in their traditional...
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Using Credit and Spending Money Wisely

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars discuss how to spend money wisely. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book, Mr. Popper's Penguins and discuss how much it costs to take care of a pet. Young scholars complete a worksheet to calculate the total...
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Everyday Math

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss word problems involving time and money. In this mathematics instructional activity, students solve word problems as a class focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. Students then make...
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A Dollar for Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners demonstrate different ways to make a dollar. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book A Dollar for Penny and identify the value of each coin. Learners determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.
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Compare Money Amounts

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comparing money amounts practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to compare money amounts.
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What's on Sale?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore sale items.  In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper.  Students identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts.  Students...
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Adding and Subtracting Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate U.S. currency by pretending to buy food.  In this money instructional activity, students discover the vocabulary and value for each U.S. coin, then add the amounts in dollars and cents of food items they wish to...
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What a Plan!

For Students 3rd
Word problems and the strategies to solve them are the focus of this worksheet. Students are given 3 word problems and are prompted to write out their plan for solving each problem. The fourth problem tells students to write out his or...
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The Money of Great Britain

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete a KWL chart about money including what they would like to learn about the currency of Great Britain. In this British currency lesson, students read a text about this topic and view both American and British pictures of...
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Hands On: Relate Fractions, Decimals, and Money

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this fractions worksheet, students solve 6 problems in which a story that compares two amounts of money is first read. Students determine which amount is greater. Students will be comparing decimals with fractions.
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Scarcity and Choice

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
After reading the book A Bargain for Frances, young economists discuss how money is exchanged for goods or services. They demonstrate effective financial decision-making by listing ways to save money for a product they would like to buy.
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Buying in Bulk

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate buying purchases in bulk. In this buying in bulk lesson, students consider ways to cut costs and reduce waste in landfills by making bulk purchases.
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The Quarter Fold

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Little ones identify the US quarter and explore the concept of one-fourth or one-quarter. Using real coins or coin manipulatives, they divide a square piece of paper into quarters, discuss halves and quarters, and create a design that...
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No More Money Trouble

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Young consumers explore money identification and counting. In this cross-curricular money instructional activity, they participate in comprehension and writing activities prior to and after reading the book Money Trouble by Bill Cosby....
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Coin Carnival

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the value of coins. In this coin value lesson plan, students read The Penny Pot by Stuart Murphy. Students expand on skills learned in the book and engage in activities to determine the value of a mixed set of coins...
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Battle of "The Cents"

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore money. In this counting money lesson, students play a card game using the rules of "War." Learners turn over cards, determine the money value represented, and the student with the highest value keeps the cards.
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Teaching Money

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify coin/money values, write amounts of money and calculate change. The poem, "Smart" by Shel Silverstein is used in this lesson.
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Money Matters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences.  In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money....
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Math on a Roll

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students practice various math skills using a polyhedral die. In this dice game lesson plan, students practice multiplication, addition, place value, and money using games. Standard dice may be used instead of a polyhedral die with...
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students determine the differences between goods and services, and saving and spending. In this economics lesson, students listen to a rhyming story about a bunny with money. They play a matching game with the associated cards and work...

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