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Who's In The Bag?
Students bring in a bag from home with personal items. In this ice breaker lesson, students bring 10 personal items to school. The teacher shows them, asks the students questions, and has them guess as to the owner of the bag.
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Trail Mix
Third graders, given the price of different ingredients, make a trail mix of five different items without exceeding their budget of five dollars. They choose between pretzels, M&M's, twizzlers, popcorn, etc,. Each student practices...
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Estimating Prices
Learners practice making reasonable estimates. In this consumer math, students round purchase prices of items to estimate the total cost. Learners practice using metal computations to arrive at estimates.
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How Much Is On The Floor?
Students estimate the number of items in a group. In this estimation lesson, students are presented with random objects to clean up. Students estimate how many items are present and then compare the actual number of items to their...
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A Metre
In this measurement worksheet, students use a tape measure or a ruler to measure items in the classroom to find those that are greater than 100 cm and less than 100 cm.
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Practicing With Money
In this practicing with money worksheet, learners review and discuss how much money they would have with one quarter, two quarters, three quarters and four quarters. Students also draw the coins they would use to pay for a particular...
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Sorting "Good" Junk (Recycling)
Second graders study recycling. In this environment instructional activity, 2nd graders discuss how to sort trash, sort actual trash labeling it, and explore the trash writing new uses of each item of trash instead of...
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Lesson 3: Where Does Money Come From?
Students listen to story Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis, explore history of money, and examine how money is produced in the United States. They discuss why money is used for exchange, and describe how money has changed over time.
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Money
Students speak and listen to different prices of items and complete a worksheet. In this prices lesson plan, students circle the correct prices on a sheet they are given based on the ones their teacher calls out.
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Learning to Use a Scale
In this scale worksheet, students measure items on a scale, and read examples. Students complete 4 questions on their own about scale measurement.
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Counting Worksheet
For this counting worksheet, students complete 3 different sections in which they are asked to count by fives, write in missing numbers in number sequences, and count items on the page and then write the correct number on the blank...
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Markup, Discount and Tax
In this selling price instructional activity, 6th graders solve and complete 24 different types of problems. First, they find the selling price for each item described. Then, students determine the discount rate using the original price...
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Sums to Ten
In these addition worksheets, students add the 1 digit numbers that have sums to 10. Students solve 100 single digit addition problems.
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Decimals: checkbook and money
In this decimal worksheet, high schoolers complete problems having to do with a checkbook, money, the cost of items, and more, with numbers containing decimals. Students complete 3 problems.
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Hands On: How Big is 1,000?
In this counting to 1,000 learning exercise, students use the packs of stickers and their specific counts that range from 1, 10, 100, and 1,000. Students determine if the people have to buy more than 1,000, less than 1,000, or exactly...
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Energy in the Home
In this energy use worksheet, learners read about kilowatts and solve 2 problems. They find the costs to run certain electrical items for a given amount of time and they determine the electricity consumption of an accelerator that runs...
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The Big Buck Adventure: Part 2
Students go on a pretend shopping spree. In this money lesson, students complete a Shopping Spree activity sheet where they pretend they have won $100 and can spend it on a fake shopping spree. Students use the Internet to...
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Batchelder Bubble Gum Factory: Place Value Unit
Students explore grouping. In this math lesson plan, students brainstorm ways to efficiently count the items in their pile and discuss the methods used. Students use a place value chart and practice regrouping ones to tens.
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Introduction to Estimation and Making Arrays
Students explore the concept of estimating and organizing a group of objects into an array to count the exact number of items. They create their own arrays and practice elements of estimation.
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Reading Food Labels
Fourth graders examine the food labels on two similar items that are very different nutritionally such as a can of regular soda and a can of diet soda. Next they, sort through food labels to determine healthy and unhealthy foods by...
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Averages and Percentages
In this averages and percents learning exercise, students identify and define average as all numbers together divided by the total number of items added. Then they identify and define percent as the given number out of a total possible....
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Basic Word Problems
In this basic word problems worksheet, 6th graders solve 5 different types of word problems based on information described in each problem. First, they determine the number of books needed to read. Then, students determine the total...
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Upper and Lower Case Pp Initial Sound Recognition Activity
In this upper and lower case Pp initial sound recognition worksheet, 1st graders follow directional arrows and trace the dotted lines to write one line of each letter. They write the letter p next to 7 pictures of items that begin with...
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Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to Ten
In this comparing numbers review instructional activity, students complete 100 number statements by adding greater than, less than, or equal to symbols.