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Grocery Store Math- Home/School Activity
In this home/school consumer math activity, students examine ways to save money at the grocery store. They work with a family partner to write a menu and write a shopping list. They shop for the items noting the prices and using a...
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Total Cost and Unit Cost
In this unit rate instructional activity, students solve 6 problems in which the unit rate in a consumer math story problem is calculated. There are no examples or instructions.
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Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl
Cover two subjects with one lesson! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl. Then, take...
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Leveled Problem Solving: Histograms
In this using data, frequency table, and histogram to solve word problems worksheet, students solve problems about prices of toys and numbers of toys sold to solve consumer mathematics problems. Students solve six problems.
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Hands On: Add and Subtract Money Amounts
In this consumer math worksheet, learners use a table and play money to solve each of 8 money story problems. Students will use a price list provided.
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Shapes for Sale!
In this visual thinking learning exercise, learners use the price tags on the 3 basic shapes at the top of the page to determine the costs of each of the 6 more complex shapes on the page. They then make their own complex shape and ask a...
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Money Amounts
In this consumer math activity, students write the amount of money they see in decimal form. They identify and total both paper money and coins in 4 examples. They identify bills up to $100 and coins from a penny to a dollar.