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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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Reality Store: How to Plan a Budget, Pay Bills, and Manage Your Money
Students plan a budget and pay bills when they visit the "Reality Store," a series of classroom studying stations. The use of paying bills and running a class store is used to help students grasp the concept of business.
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Restaurant Bills- Working With Money
In this consumer math activity, students working in small groups allow one member to choose two items. They add up the prices either mentally or using pencil and paper. They announce the answers in order to check the work.
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Flipping Coins: Density as a Characteristic Property
Young scholars explore linear functions in a crime solving context. They collect and analyze data using linear equations, then interpret the slope and intercepts from a linear model.
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The Hundred Penny Box
Students compare how people save money in financial institutions, after reading the story, The Hundred Penny Box. They analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding.
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Party Math
Students create a spreadsheet that they will use to plan a small party or outing. They calculate expenses and stay within a budget amount for their party.
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Dime Store Math
In this dime store math worksheet, learners using the information provided in each of nine boxes, calculate how many packages will be available to their customers.
SMART Project
Shop with Us at Whelan School
Third graders use their math and research skills to create and manage a classroom/school store. They use a computer to manage, organize and access information. They practice pricing products, computing sales, counting money and...
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
A Tale of Two Houses
Does it cost more per year to heat Bill's home in North Dakota or to cool Bubba's home in Georgia? Using heat transfer concepts, mathematical equations, and critical thinking skills, young engineers work in groups to determine who is...
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Math Online Exercises
In this online math exercises worksheet, students calculate the answers to a multiplication table, exchange specific amounts of money to pence and solve twenty-six multiplication and division math problems. Students check their answers...
Illustrative Mathematics
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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Counting Money
Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.
Mathed Up!
Percentages
Review a percentage of math skills. Designed to review for the General Certificate of Secondary Education Math assessment, the resource provides practice with a variety of percent problems. Items provide pupils problems ranging from...
Concord Consortium
Rising Prices
What will that cost in the future? The scenario provides pupils with a growth as a Consumer Price Index. Learners create functions for a given item to determine future prices and graph them. Class members then compare their functions to...
Noyce Foundation
Cat Food
Determine the right mix of cans of cat food. The resource consists of an assessment task to determine the cost to feed two cats for a specific number of days and requires scholars to interpret remainders within a context....
Mathed Up!
Utility Bills
What is the total cost? Provided with seven problems, pupils determine the total cost for utilities. Scholars determine the amount of the utility used and determine the cost based upon the given unit rate. The resource is part of a prep...
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A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
Students explore the concept of exponential growth. For this exponential growth lesson, students manipulate power models with base 2. Students discuss what would happen if you doubled a penny over the course of 20 days. ...
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A Trip to Colonial Virginia
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. In this budgeting lesson, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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The Bank of Good Habits
Students explore investing and saving. In this investing lesson plan, students identify their own financial goals and hurdles to success, calculate interest, and simulate banking and investing transactions. Incentive certificates, a...
Math Mammoth
Word Problems 3
In this math instructional activity, learners solve word problems pertaining to the cost of operating 4 different cars. Students calculate gasoline use and cost for 5 years to operate each car.
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Doubling and Halving
In this mathematics worksheet, students identify how to solve by doubling and halving. They use strategies like doubling and thirding to calculate answers to each of the equations on the sheet.
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2002 State Flower Show
Here is another State Quarter activity. This one uses the Mississippi State Quarter. Pupils utilize beautifully-designed worksheets embedded in the plan, to practice calculating which combinations of flowers they can afford to buy. They...
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Buying on Credit
Explore using credit in this financial responsibility and math lesson. Learn to identify the acronym of "PRT" as Principle x Rate x Time, then calculate interest based on this formula. Do some real-world problem solving and choose...
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Solving Real Life Problems
How do you solve a real-world math problem? Start by thinking about the five steps to good problem solving, which include reading, extracting data, choosing a calculation, showing work, and stating a solution. Well done!