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Describe How Money Barter, and Credit Were Used in Colonial Virginia

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen as the teacher lectures about bartering. They work in small groups to define and create a skit about one term related to bartering. Students create an Economic Terms booklet. They review that tobacco was a cash crop...
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Spending - Maintaining the skill of money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice making change with money. In this subtraction lesson, 3rd graders watch a video about money. Students investigate what it means to earn money, spend it, and find their change.
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SPENDING: Maintaining the Skill of Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of maintaining money. In this personal finance lesson, 4th graders earn "money" for cleaning their classroom desks. Students spend the "money" in the classroom and practice making change.
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My Test Book: Money Problems

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this online interactive math skills worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems that regarding money. Students may view the correct answers.
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Money Matters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences.  In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money.  Students...
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Hands On: Add and Subtract Money Amounts

For Students 5th - 6th
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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Add and Subtract Money

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money instructional activity, students solve the six word problems by adding or subtracting the money word problems. Students solve six word problems.
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Using Money

For Students 4th
In this money learning exercise, 4th graders study how coupons allow people to buy things for less than full price. Students use the information acquired to answer 3 short answer math problems.
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Iditarod Math Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this Iditarod worksheet, students complete word problems about the money, booties, time, and more about the Iditarod. Students complete fifteen problems.
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Whose Lunch Money Is It?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners examine the legal issues involved when there is a dispute over lunch money at school. They read the case study, discuss the two points of view, and illustrate a picture of how they would solve the problem.
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Financial Institution Comparison

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Once learners are ready to choose a bank, how do they make a smart decision for their financial needs? Scholars help each other by jigsawing the research in groups. After introducing checking and savings accounts with the attached...
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Real-Life Problems

For Students 3rd - 4th
When did math become so relevant? Scholars choose from four operations to solve five word problems dealing with money and measurements. They show their work in a designated space, and must include units in their answers. Learners work...
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Bank Role Play

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice making basic bank transactions while role-playing specific examples of etiquette and manners. In this banking role play for ESL students lesson, students go to a bank to deposit money. Students also withdraw money, cash...
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Lesson Four - Making Change

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept. 
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Idiom Quizzes - Money

For Students 5th - 6th
In this identifying meanings of idioms online/interactive worksheet, students choose idioms to replace the expressions in parentheses in sentences. Students choose 30 answers.
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Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.
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What is Money? Learn the Role of Money in a Free Market System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view a seashell and listen as the teacher explains that these were sometimes used as money. They listen as the teacher lectures on medium of exchange, barter, and commodity. Students determine the number of chickens it...
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Practical Money Skills

Making Decisions

For Students 6th - 12th
A set of quizzes and assessments would make a great companion to your lesson plan on making decisions and opportunity risks. Learners watch a PowerPoint before answering multiple choice questions about interest rates, saving money, and...
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Money Word Problems Test

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this solving story problems with money worksheet, students find the amount of change and coins needed to solve. Students solve nine problems.
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Counting Change

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this counting change worksheet, students practice calculating the change after purchasing an item four times. Students draw the coins for the change.
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The Fed is Protecting Your Money

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the role of the Federal Reserve. In groups, they discover the three functions of money and discuss the most common forms of payment used in society today. They develop a survery to give to the local community...
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Everyday Math Experiences

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students can put away the workbooks and experience a real world math day.
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College Education

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What do Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? They're both billionaires, and neither one has a college degree! Using the website, scholars explore whether having a college education is truly worth the money it costs. They read...
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Understanding Tax: Your Role as a Tax Payer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Every adult should know that it is their responsibility to help fund public goods and services by paying taxes. Help young people get a handle on the history, evolution, purposes for, and reasons why they should pay taxes too.