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Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Piggy Bank vs. Bank – Choosing and Maintaining Your Account

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Cha-ching! Using the practical resource, scholars investigate the different types of bank accounts and banking services available. Pupils view a PowerPoint, practice writing checks, and complete a checking account research project.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Cash the Check and Track the Dough

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
From checking and savings accounts to learning the importance of maintaining records and balancing a bank account, prepare your learners to become financially independent and savvy adults, and explore all the intricacies of owning a bank...
Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Bank Account Balance

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Represent the ups and downs of a bank account. The two-part task points out that some types of graphs may better show discrete functions than others. Pupils analyze a graph on how well it represents the situation. They develop their own...
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EngageNY

Investments—Performing Operations with Rational Numbers

For Teachers 7th Standards
Partners fill out a register to record transactions on a college investment account. They use the amounts listed to calculate the running and current balance of the account, providing experience in adding and subtracting rational numbers.
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Wells Fargo

Hands on Banking

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What happens to your money between the time you make a bank deposit and the time you decide to spend it? Take middle schoolers and teens through the process of opening checking and savings accounts, creating a personal budget,...
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Visa

Banking Services

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
From writing and depositing checks to comparing ATM and debit cards, pupils develop financially savvy practices and build foundational knowledge of the financial service products available through banking institutions. 
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Wells Fargo

Hands on Banking

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Cha-ching! You just hit the jackpot with this interactive consumer math unit. Supported by a series of online lessons and activities, these lessons engage students in applying their math skills to real-life personal...
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Visa

Saving and Investing

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Impress upon your young adults the importance of saving and investing, and give them a foundational vocabulary from which they can continue to build their financial literacy. This lesson plan covers short- and long-term budget goals,...
Lesson Plan
iCivics

Governing Communities

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The government at the local level acts as perhaps one of the most relevant government systems to many in their communities. Learners discover how the local government shapes their lives and the similarities and differences between the...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Checking and Savings Accounts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Practical Mathematics begins with the basic checking and savings account and how to reconcile a checking account statement. Simple and compound interest are demonstrated in this step by step flipchart.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Susita's Account

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students write an equation for the amount of money in a checking account when money is deposited and withdrawn regularly, and use it to calculate the balance at a certain time. This task asks students to determine a...