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A Lesson to Accompany "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy"

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars investigate the role of money in the colonial economy. In this colonial economy lesson, students participate in a trading activity, read the booklet "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy," participate...
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Count And Add Nickels

For Teachers 1st
This math instructional activity 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...
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Problem Solving

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use hockey sticks to pick up bean bags and put them into hoops which they get money for in the end. In this movement and math lesson plan, students get fake money and add up how much they earned in the end based on how many...
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Money Division With Whole Numbers Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students define quotient, divisor and dividend. They divide single digit numbers, with or without remainders, and demonstrate their knowledge with both a group activity and a practice worksheet.
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Hands On: Relate Fractions, Decimals, and Money

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this fractions instructional activity, learners solve 6 problems in which a story that compares two amounts of money is first read. Students determine which amount is greater. Learners will be comparing decimals with fractions.
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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers K - 4th
Student explore an economic-decision making model to decide where to donate money they have collected. In this philanthropic money instructional activity, students develop a plan for raising money and then decide how to best spend it for...
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Models with monomials and polynomials

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners participate in a lesson that focuses on the concepts of combining monomials to make polynomial expressions. They use algebra tiles to complete the exercises in the lesson. This is hands-on learning with successive problem...
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Count Coins and Bills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils study the names and values of different denominations of paper money, count sets of money that include both coins and bills. They complete a money chart, read and solve word problems.
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Subtract Money Amounts

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this subtracting money amounts worksheet, students subtract the money amounts within the word problems. Students solve six word problems.
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Taxes: Where Does Your Money Go?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study taxes and the role that they place in our lives. In this economic lesson, students explore the reality of taxes, how they work, why we pay them, where the money goes and how to make the most of the money you pay into taxes...
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Burning a Hole in Your Pocket

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students solve word problems.  In this money lesson, students solve math word problems dealing with money and then write down all the steps necessary to solve the problems.  Students use given websites to practice more math...
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How Would You Spend a Million Dollars?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students plan and organize a theme to spend one million dollars. They select a theme, research prices of items on the Internet, organize the information into a spreadsheet, write an introductory paragraph, and create a final project.
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Place Value Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use place value structure to construct and compare numbers that are up to the ten thousands. In this place value lesson plan, 4th graders explain and discuss numbers that are greatest in size according to the place of the...
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Multiply Money

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this multiplication practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to multiply money.
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Taxes: Where Does Your Money Go?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of taxes. In this tax lesson, students investigate types of taxes and deductions taken out of a paycheck before they see it. Students calculate the tax on a given dollar amount. Students discuss 401(k)s...
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Adding and Subtracting With Negative Numbers

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars solve equations with negative numbers. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students review how to add and subtract with positive and negative numbers on a number line. Young scholars discuss the outcomes of adding two...
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Math for the Frontier

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of inflation. In this inflation activity, students compile a list of necessities they would need to take with them if they were moving to a new state next month. Students compare their list with that of a...
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Three-Digit Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders access prior knowledge of addition and subtraction using two-digit numbers and calculate easily with them. In this three-digit addition lesson, 2nd graders learn to add and subtract three-digit numbers with and without...
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Estimating With Fire

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils solve problems with percents, decimals and fractions. In this algebra lesson, students convert between fractions, percents and decimals. They estimate their answers and calculate their answer.
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Add Mixed Numbers with and without Regrouping

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this adding mixed numbers with and without regrouping worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Savings Account Introduction Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 7th
This teaching tool promotes a practical understanding of basic mathematical skills by having learners determine percents on interest. There are several worksheet options available as well as a guid on how best to use them.
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Restaurant Tipping Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 9th
What do you do after a good meal, tip the server of course. The class calculates the appropriate tip to leave at a restaurant given certain bills. They identify the bill before and after tax and find the correct tip. A great way to put...
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Paws in Jobland Number Crunch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners analyze real life jobs that involve math. They discuss jobs where math is used, and explore how math is important in many areas and research some of these jobs in the book "Paws in Jobland." They complete a worksheet with four...
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Finance in the Classroom

Unit on Checking

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
As part of a four-lesson unit on personal finances, class members practice using a checkbook. Exercises include writing checks, filling out deposit and withdrawal slips, and keeping a check register.