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Making Change
Learners investigate how to make change when purchasing items. In this making change lesson, students examine a scenario to calculate the correct change. Learners play Bingo based on information and calculations to determine the amount...
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Lesson Four - Making Change
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept.
Illustrative Mathematics
Chess Club
When the membership in a chess club changes, it is your mathematicians' job to find out how many boys and girls are attending and the percent change from last year. The activity provides a great compound problem finding the different...
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Making Money Amounts
In this recognizing ways to make the given amounts of money activity, students read the total amounts of change and fill in the columns telling the numbers of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters needed. Students solve 10 problems.
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High School EcoHouse Curriculum
How has the level of carbon dioxide changed over recent years, and what is contributing it? Groups work together to research and present their findings in a creative way. Also built into the lesson is a visit to a sustainable house, but...
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The Price is Right, So Let's Make Change
Students estimate, calculate, and count back the amount of change needed from purchases made during small group activities.
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Cardiac Output, Rates of Change, and Accumulation
Students explore rates of change. In this cardiac output lesson, students measure the amount of blood being pumped by a heart. They explore the flow rate and complete an accumulation and concentration problem. They analyze data, flow...
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Studying Snow and Ice Changes
Students compare the change in snow and ice over a 10 year period. In this environmental science activity, students use the live data on the NASA site to study and compare the monthly snow and ice amounts on a map of the entire Earth. ...
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Try a Money Bee for a "Change"
Students take the spelling bee format and adapt it to provide practice in making change and work on their money skills. They simulate the process of making purchases with money and making change as necessary to complete the purchase.
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Counting Money and Making Change
Students 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 lesson is important as a foundation for future math concepts in...
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The Price of Bread
As part of an initiative to strengthen our young adults' financial understanding, this problem explores the cost of bread and minimum wage since the 1930s. Learners are asked to find the percent increase from each year and compare it...
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Paying the Exact Amount
In this problem solving skills instructional activity, students solve 6 math word problems that require them to add and subtract using monetary amounts.
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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Surface Area and Volume
Upper graders identify the surface area and attributes of figures that are measurable. They estimate, measure, and record perimeter, area, temperature change, and elapsed time, using a variety of strategies. They also determine the...
Math Mammoth
Money and Change
In this consumer math instructional activity, students estimate and then multiply the given money amounts. Students also practice finding change. There are seven problems to complete.
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Place Value: Making Change with Canadian Money
For this place value: making change with Canadian money worksheet, learners use a spreadsheet and certain coins to practice and record how much change would be given from a $5 bill. A parent or tutor adjusts the questions to the...
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AMOUNT OF GREENHOUSE GASES IN THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE
Students feel the changes of the amounts of greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere. They learn that the amounts of greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere are clearly changing. Some evidences of these changes include levels of...
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Choosing Coins
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders identify what coins can be used to buy a toy train. Then they count out how much money is given and write that amount in cents. Students also trace or draw the coins to match each price listed.
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Making Change with Dollars anc Cents
Third graders increase their knowledge of how to make change with dollars and cents by correctly identifying coins along with their values and then using coins to make an assigned amount which will be written on envelopes. They then...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Making Change
Students make change from play money they use based on prices mentioned in a book they read. In this making change lesson plan, students use subtraction to find their change amount.
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Making Change with Coins
In this online interactive making change with coins learning exercise, students read examples and use their problem solving skills in order to solve to 24 problems.
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Comparing Quantities with Percent
Be 100 percent confident who has the most and by how much. Pupils use percentages to help make the comparisons by finding what percent one quantity is of the other. They also determine the percent differences between the two quantities.
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Which Coin?
Manage your money with change purses and piggy banks. Once they match different coins to corresponding price tags, first and second graders add the amounts of change in each illustration. For extra practice, bring in small items for kids...
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Making Amounts with Money
Second graders discuss how to make correct change. In this lesson on money, 2nd graders practice making an amount using the correct number of coins.