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Addition and Subtraction of Signed Numbers
Students explore the concept of adding and subtracting using positive and negative numbers. In this addition and subtraction of signed numbers lesson, students use pennies to represent positive and negative numbers. Students deposit and...
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Fractions: Add and Subtract
In this fractions worksheet, students count the spare change they have at home and complete a chart, filling in coin values, number they have and total value for each. Students then represent the make a pie chart to represent fractions...
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Profit From Pumpkins
Third graders cut open a pumpkin. In this math lesson plan, 3rd graders complete the worksheet "From Seed to Pumpkin" and then clean out their pumpkins to see how many seeds are in it.
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Fundraising
In order to solve for who raised the most money, learners will need to choose an appropriate math strategy or tool to help them. Two possible solutions, one involving pictures and one involving abstract thought, are presented in the...
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Alloys
Tidy slides and lecture notes for each are included in this presentation on alloys. Instruction begins with the molecular arrangement of a pure element, gold, and progresses to a few example alloys: brass, steel, and nitinol. This...
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Everyday Mathematics: Counting Up
In this counting up worksheet, students learn strategies to help them solve problems involving change. Students study a number grid and number line to help them count up to make change.
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Shopping Spree
Sixth graders examine currency by completing monetary equations. In this economics lesson, 6th graders participate in a numbers experiment where they roll a die and earn money based on their roll. Students compete for their...
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Using Counting-on Strategy for Purchasing
Intended for learners with autism and developmental disabilities, this lesson uses the strategy of counting-on to enhance independent shopping skills. Learners will practice counting on to the next dollar value in order to purchase items...
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Exponential Growth Versus Linear Growth I
Your algebra learners will discover how quickly an exponential function value grows compared to a linear function's value. Making a table of values helps in this comparison, set in the context of making a wage for raking leaves.
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Pigs Will Be Pigs
Students practice adding money after reading a story. In this economics lesson, students read the book Pigs Will be Pigs by Amy Axelrod, and examine how decimals, dollar signs, and adding money is used when making a purchase....
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Menu Word Problems Worksheet #8
In this adding and subtracting monetary amounts worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 10 word problems.
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Menu Word Problems Worksheet #2
In this adding and subtracting monetary amounts learning exercise, students use their problem solving skills to solve 10 word problems.
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Elementary Economics:Making Smart Choices
Young scholars understand what good and bad choices are in regards to money and review and reinforce the value of each coin. They identify parts of a story as well as the sequencing. They then create their own sequence of events in words...
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Adding Negative Numbers
In this integers instructional activity, students solve 16 addition problems by adding two integers together. There is no answer...
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Farmers Dilemma
Students investigate the "futures" market and how it affects farmers by completing a prediction activity utilizing bags of M&Ms. While completing this activity, students practice basic mathematics skills and reinforce economic terms.
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Economics Quiz
In this economic worksheet, students answer 55 multiple-choice questions. Most of the questions are microeconomic in nature but there are macroeconomics questions as well.
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SOIL
Second graders name the various materials that comprise soil, including weathered rock and other organic matter; and explain that soils differ in their color, texture, capacity to retain water, and ability to support the growth of many...
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Soil
Second graders name the various materials that comprise soil, including weathered rock and other organic matter. They explain that soils differ in their color, texture, capacity to retain water, and ability to support the growth of many...
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Add and Subtract Integers Worksheet
In this adding and subtracting integers worksheet, learners review integer rules by completing 19 drill and practice questions. They work in pairs to compute the total left in a fictitious bank account after several withdrawals and...
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Banking Basics Extension 3.3
In this checking account register in the financial life of a teenager worksheet, students read and solve word problems. Students solve 10 problems.
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Counting Nickels
This little piggy went to market! Piggy banks are displayed on this page with varying numbers of nickels on each. Coin counters count by 5s to determine how much money each piggy holds. This is a clever worksheet for counting practice...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?
Students explore saving and investing money. In this middle school personal finance activity, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound...
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Writing and Solving Equations
Fifth graders explore equations. In this solving equations lesson plan, 5th graders examine visual examples of writing and solving equations. Students also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
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Magic Squares for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act II, scene 5
Readers of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night use a magic squares matrix to match vocabulary words from Act II, Scene 5 with their definitions. An answer key is provided.