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Show Me the Money
Class members learn how to estimate the total costs involved to design and build a bridge by including design, material, equipment, and labor costs. The activity includes a discussion about the trade-off between cost and aesthetics.
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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...
Bridges In Mathematics
Grade 2 Comprehensive Growth Assessment
Need to know if your students comprehend all the Common Core standards covered in second grade? This growth assessment will let you know. Find out if your second graders can add/subtract, tell the time, read a bar graph, know their...
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Summer Bridge Activities 4-5
In this cross-curricular worksheet, students complete various activities. They complete a crossword puzzle dealing with electricity, change mixed numbers into decimals, subtract fractions, identify adjectives in sentences, solve money...
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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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Gifts from Grandma, Variation 1
Composed of three word problems, this math activity exposes young mathematicians to relationships present in multiplication and division. The first problem is most useful with a tape diagram in which learners are working with equal-sized...
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Math Challenge: Count Coins
In this counting change instructional activity, students count the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amount of each group of coins. Students solve 6 problems.
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Calculator Activity: Dollars and Cents
In this using the calculator to solve addition and subtraction money problems learning exercise, students follow the steps to enter and solve the dollar and cents problems. Students solve seven problems.
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Be Independent / Life Management Skills
Living independently is about more than managing money. Learn how to manage time, balance responsibilities, and calculate overtime and income with a set of activities about life management skills.
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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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Addition With 20 Dollar Bills
In this money addition worksheet, students add sets of 20 dollar bills, writing totals beside each set, 7 total. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Addition With 50 Dollar Bills
In this addition learning exercise, students add sets of 50 dollar bills, writing totals beside each set. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Introduction to Earning Interest: Middle School
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members research three different ways they can earn money using money already in the bank. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money...
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Can You Match the Coin's Name?
In this coin matching activity, 2nd graders draw a line between each coin and its matching name. They match 10 pence, 50 pence, 20 pence, 1 penny, 5 pence and 2 pence.
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Counting Quarters
In this counting coins worksheet, students examine the 6 sets of coins pictured and record the value of each of the sets shown.
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Money Story Worksheet
In this math literacy worksheet, students focus on the example of a word problem that uses money and then create their own at the bottom of the page.
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Math Challenge: Counting Coins
In this counting coins worksheet, students practice problem solving skills as they find the value of the coins shown in 6 problems.
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Math Challenge: Counting Coins 2
For this counting coins worksheet, students practice problem solving skills as they find the value of the coins shown in 6 problems.
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Money
In this counting coins activity, students enhance their money counting skills by completing the 23 different coin counting exercises.
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Coins for teaching
In this coins worksheet, students cut out the coins representing pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, and complete money activities with them. Students cut out 66 coins.
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Math Challenge
In this money worksheet, 2nd graders count coins. Students study quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies and write the amount show for 6 problems.
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Money
In this money vocabulary worksheet, students locate 15 words pertaining to money in a word search. Included in the money words are names of the coins and bills currently in circulation.
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Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl
Cover two subjects with one lesson plan! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl. Then, take...
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Subtraction Practice, Part 4
In need of some subtraction practice? Here is a good review or quiz activity to reinforce your subtraction lesson. Twenty-four problems include subtracting two-digit numbers, most of which involve carrying. The last fifteen problems use...