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Buggin' Out (Identifying and Adding Amounts of Money)
Students explore consumer math by participating in estimate exercises. In this currency lesson, students identify and define each piece of U.S. currency and their value to the monetary system. Students complete several money worksheets...
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Expressing Money
Students listen to a book read to them by their teacher and express the amount of money stated with their manipulative of play money and show different ways to express that amount of money.
Illustrative Mathematics
Discounted Books
Adolescents love to shop, especially when an item is discounted. Here, shoppers only have a set amount of money to spend. Will they be able to make a purchase with the discount and tax added in? Percent discounts can be calculated...
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Counting Money and Making Change
Learners count collections of coins and one-dollar bills. They solve problems and learn to use the dollar sign ($) with the decimal point to represent money amounts. This instructional activity is important as a foundation for future...
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Adding and Subtracting Money
Students investigate U.S. currency by pretending to buy food. In this money lesson, 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 purchase....
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Financial Literacy: Money Attitudes Lesson Plan
Going once, going twice, sold! An auction provides class members with an opportunity to examine their attitudes toward money. After bidding on and purchasing items, individuals complete an attitude survey and then identify a...
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"Money In My Pocket"
Second graders assess a brief history of money, the use of money, working with money as well as adding and subtracting with money and how to spend money wisely with responsibility. In addition, they discuss how everything belongs to God...
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Money
Students practice counting money. In this counting and comparing money instructional activity, students review the value of coins and use play money to count out five dollars. Students complete a worksheet to determine what...
Illustrative Mathematics
Chicken and Steak, Variation 2
Many organizations put on barbecues in order to make money. In a real-world math problem, the money allotted to purchase steak and chicken at this barbecue is only one hundred dollars. It is up to your potential chefs to figure out how...
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Show Me the Money
Students study the monetary value of a penny, nickel, and dime. They simulate a candy store by calculating the proper amount of money needed to purchase candy. After viewing a video, they complete the "Handful of Coins" pictograph .
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Super Sale Store Game
Students help their teacher set up their classroom in the form of a store. Using construction paper, they make different amounts of paper money and items to buy. To end the lesson, they play the game to practice making change and adding...
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Adding Two Digit Numbers with Using Dimes and Pennies
Second graders participate in a math game using dimes and pennies. They practice combining coins to make a given amount of money, and they use the combinations to practice adding two digit numbers. Teacher assessment strategies and...
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Double Your Money
What a creative way to delve into adding large numbers! After listening to a story called The King's Chessboard, learners estimate how much money they would have each day following instructions based on doubling and exponentially...
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Money Addition (A)
In this mathematics worksheet, students solve a number of money problems by adding a decimal to another decimal. There are 20 problems to solve on the sheet.
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Mental Math for Adding Decimals
Fifth graders work in groups to practice adding decimals. In this adding decimals lesson, 5th graders call out different money amounts to each other and mentally add the coins called out. Students take turns calling out and adding the...
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How To: Count Coins and Bills
Students discover the names and values of different monetary denominations. In this money lesson, students examine the different combinations that money can be added in to find specified amounts. The students complete worksheets based on...
Workforce Solutions
Plan a Vacation
Challenge scholars to plan a vacation with a $5,000 budget. Learners review costs of transportation, meals, and entertainment while considering the number of people and destination. Worksheets provide information and...
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Holiday Wish Lists
Have your class create wish lists in order to practice money-management skills. Learners make a list of items they would like to buy. Then they do research on the Internet to identify the price of each item. And, finally, they add up the...
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That's The Way the Cookie Crumbles
Third graders work with money values and making purchases. In this money lesson, 3rd graders listen to Donna Guthrie's book, Real World Math: Money and Other Numbers In Your Life. They make money cookies either with a recipe or with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Field Day Scarcity
Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...
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Count And Add Nickels
This math lesson focuses on coins - specifically the nickel. Students use plastic nickles in order to gain practice counting by fives, and adding amounts of cents. Students complete a worksheet where they tally up different amounts of...
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Dollar Word
Students review the value of coins prior to adding up values to equal one dollar. Letters of the alphabet are assigned monetary values and students use calculators to add up the value of a word. Students work with a partner to try and...
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Money Addition (B)
In this money addition worksheet, students use their math skills to solve 12 problems that require them to add together Euro amounts.
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Money Addition, A (Euros and Cents)
In this math worksheet, students add money amounts. Each amount is written in decimal form with the symbol for Euro. Students regroup often to find the correct answer. Each of the given amounts is less than ten Euros.