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Financial Contracts
Prepare your class for the real world and learn the basics about credit and the principles behind using it wisely. The activity includes handouts that explain the necessary vocabulary and concepts to understanding credit. After reviewing...
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Paws in Jobland Number Crunch
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
Sarah, the chimpanzee
Is Sarah, the chimpanzee, smart or just a lucky guesser? Here, learners set up a simulation and read a dotplot to find out the likelihood of getting 7 out of 8 questions correct. One suggested modification would be to have your class...
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Historical Mathematicians Project
Students, in small groups, use the Internet and other traditional sources to research historically significant mathematicians, write a paper, and creatively present research in class.
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Special Snack
Students explore grocery store circulars to choose items for a snack. In this snack math instructional activity, students must plan a class snack for $20.00. Students create a list estimating costs. Students view lists and...
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Lines of Fit
Students graph an equation and analyze the data. In this algebra instructional activity, students graph scatter plots and identify the line of best fit using positive correlation, negative correlation an d no correlation. They apply...
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I Want It All!
Third graders understand the economics of choices in buying. In this goods and services lesson, 3rd graders participate in activities to make choices about purchases. Students write stories, answer questions, and complete worksheets to...
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Budget Mania
Students examine examples of budgets and explore the difficulties of living on a budget. The hands-on activity offers an opportunity to experience a real life application.
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Building Tolerance for Poverty in Math
Students explore approximate and exact solutions. In this interdisciplinary instructional activity, 6th graders will be placed in 'family groups' to create a budget that is subject to random events as chosen from the 'things happen' box....
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A Penny for Your Height
Students investigate measurement. In this fifth/sixth grade mathematics activity, students explore the relationship between inches and centimeters. Students measure their height in inches or centimeters and convert the...
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power
Students explore the concept a higher education yields higher earnings. Throughout the class, students visit six workstations and examine occupations, education, salaries, spending, banking, and taxes. As students rotate through the...
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Lines of Fit
Students graph an equation and analyze the data. In this algebra instructional activity, students graph scatter plots and identify the line of best fit using positive correlation, negative correlation an d no correlation. They apply...
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Charity Begins At Home
Students read and discuss "Prosperity Extends Its Reach, but Not Far Enough to Benefit All," and examine the difficulty, for the working poor, in making ends meet, and propose philanthropic solutions.
Council for Economic Education
You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)
Students assess both negative and positive incentives associated with credit card use. They identify profit as an economic incentive for banks to offer credit cards.
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Activity #4 The Density of Irregularly Shaped Solids
Students comrehend that water displacement is a simple way to measure the volume of a solid object. They pour water into a graduated cylinder or measuring cup and its volume is read and recorded. Pupils the volume of an object by...
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Banking Basics Extension 3.3
For this checking account register in the financial life of a teenager worksheet, learners read and solve word problems. Students solve 10 problems.
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Lines of Fit
Young scholars solve equations dealing with best fit lines. For this algebra lesson, students solve problems by analyzing data from a scatterplot, and define it as positive, negative or no correlation. They classify slopes the same way...
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Comparing Linear and Exponential Functions
Teach your class how to differentiate between linear and exponential functions. They use exponential properties to solve problems, graph them using the TI-Navigator, and make comparisons.
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The Confused Bank Teller
In this algebra challenge, students use their algebraic reasoning to determine the solution to 1 problem, involving monetary exchange. The solution is provided.
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Child Development Through the Age of Six Years
Students study the developmental processes students go through from an infant to age six.
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Communication Satellites
In this communication satellites worksheet, students complete a table showing the satellite, the lifespan of the satellite, the number of transponders on the satellite and the cost of the satellite. Students determine the retire year,...
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Financial News
In this financial word problems worksheet, students solve word problems involving decimals, interest, multiplication, and more. Students complete 7 problems.
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Range, Mean, Median and Mode Through the Internet
Students compute measures of central tendency. In this range, mean, median and mode instructional activity, students gather information on the internet, organize the data and then compute the measures of central tendency. ...
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Fractions as Percentage and Decimals
In this fractions, percentages, and decimals instructional activity, students solve 14 problems where they must convert back and forth. Students are given numbers in fraction, percentage, and decimal form and are asked to change their...