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Math Stars: A Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 3
Make sure your class stays up with the times using this series of math newsletters. Including word problems that cover topics ranging from consumer math and symmetry to graphing and probability, these worksheets are a fun way to...
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Money
In this money activity, students analyze a table that tells how many of each marked item in a store four people purchased. Students look at the prices of the items and calculate the total spent by each person.
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Problem-Solving: Use Money problem solving 20.9
For this solving consumer math word problems worksheet, students write answers showing the steps to understand, plan, solve, and check their answers. Students write four answers.
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Books, Books, Books
For this consumer math challenge worksheet, students solve problems using the titles and prices of books at a book fair. Students solve 4 problems.
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Hands On: Add and Subtract Money Amounts
In this consumer math worksheet, students use a table and play money to solve each of 8 money story problems. Students will use a price list provided.
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Jamir's Penny Jar
Before you start counting the coins in Jamir's coin jar, figure out which coin to start with. Should it be the penny or the quarter? Why? This is the focus around a learning exercise that works well as an assessment on counting money and...
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Grocery Store Math- Home/School Activity
In this home/school consumer math activity, students examine ways to save money at the grocery store. They work with a family partner to write a menu and write a shopping list. They shop for the items noting the prices and using a...
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US Holiday Candy Sales
Candy is a big business! Calculate the amount of money consumers spent on major holidays—Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Valentine's Day—based on the total amount of candy sales from 2011 and the percentage of each holiday's...
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Real-Life Problems: Money
Help your fourth graders become responsible consumers with this math worksheet! They solve six word problems about buying toys using the four operations. An example at the top of the page helps pupils write out the necessary equations...
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Counting Coins
Practice counting money in this helpful worksheet. Young consumers add four separate sets of coins, and then determine how much more money they need to reach a certain amount. Pictures of coins are provided, making this worksheet a good...
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Personal Finance Project Resource Book
Balancing a budget, paying taxes, and buying a home may feel out of reach for your high schoolers, but in their adult years they will thank you for the early tips. A set of five lessons integrates applicable money math activities with...
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Which Sweet Heart Candy Is the Best Deal?
Get the most Valentine's candy for your money with a fun math activity! After examining three deals for buying candy hearts in bulk, young mathematicians decide which deal is the best and use bar graphs to demonstrate their claim. They...
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Which is the Best Deal on Candy?
Buying enough candy for trick-or-treaters without spending a lot of money can be the ultimate Halloween trick. Middle schoolers solve two holiday-themed word problems to determine which brand of candy is the better deal, based on cost...
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Adding Money
In this consumer math addition worksheet, students add three-digit dollars and cents numbers with regrouping. Students solve 20 problems.
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Creating a Budget
Learning to create and maintain a budget is an important life skill. Guide individuals in the discovery of their spending habits and how to track them. They then use what they learned to create a budget and make decisions on where they...
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Money and Change
In this consumer math activity, learners estimate and then multiply the given money amounts. Students also practice finding change. There are seven problems to complete.
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Sunshine Math-3
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 8 varied problems including consumer math, fractions, ordered pairs, measurement and mental math.
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Grade 1 Math: Addition and Subtraction 3
In this consumer math worksheet, 1st graders practice counting coins. They circle the group of coins that are equal to the given money amount. They count dimes, nickels, and pennies.
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Money Math Challenge 3
In this finding the total amounts worksheet, students add the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amounts of the various combinations. Students solve 6 problems.
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Multiply Money
In this finding the products consumer math worksheet, students multiply dollars and cents by one-digit numbers. Students solve 15 problems.
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Add the Coins
In this finding the total amount of coins worksheet, students add pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Students solve 10 consumer math problems.
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Calculating Simple Interest
Interest can be both a best friend and an enemy...show your learners how it can manifest through this set of 10 word problems. For each, they calculate time, principle, interest, or rate and choose an answer from multiple choice...
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Retirement Planning
It's never too early to start saving for retirement. In fact, the earlier one starts, the better! Use this retirement planning activity to teach the importance of a retirement strategy and why to start at a young age.
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Let's Go Shopping challenge
In this choosing items to purchase and counting coins worksheet, students circle two items in each set to purchase and use the price tags to circle the total coins needed. Students solve three problems.