EngageNY
Buying a Car
Future car owners use geometric sums to calculate payments for a car loan in the 31st installment of a 35-part module. These same concepts provide the basis for calculating annuity payments.
Wells Fargo
Hands on Banking
What happens to your money between the time you make a bank deposit and the time you decide to spend it? Take middle schoolers and teens through the process of opening checking and savings accounts, creating a personal budget,...
Charleston School District
Pre-Test Unit 3: Functions
How does an input affect an output? Assess your learners' ability to answer this question using this pre-test. Scholars answer questions about the basics of a function. Topics include determining if a table or statement represents a...
Balanced Assessment
Stock Market
Analyze trends in the stock market using histograms. Future economists use data presented in a histogram to find periods of greatest increase and decrease. They also draw conclusions about days that would be best to invest.
EngageNY
Random Sampling
Sample pennies to gain an understanding of their ages. The 16th installment of a 25-part series requires groups to collect samples from a jar of pennies. Pupils compare the distribution of their samples with the distribution of the...
Curated OER
Corporate Tax Rate and Jobs
Does lowering the corporate tax rate help create jobs in the United States? Learners explore the top pro and con arguments and quotes relating to the issue. They read background information about the creation of the federal corporate...
Media Education Lab
Defining Propaganda
21st century learners live in a media world. Help them develop the skills they need to be able to analyze the barrage of propaganda they face daily, with a resource that introduces them to the type of persuasive appeals found in...
Concord Consortium
Bricks for Books
Maximize a profit with an understanding of geometric dimension. A real-world task challenges learners to design a pattern using three different brick shapes. The bricks are dedicated with a different donation for each shape, so part of...
Judicial Branch of California
Public Service Announcement: Civic Responsibility
Get your message across. Scholars use their prior knowledge and artistic skills to create public service announcements. The project is designed to explain the importance of civic harmony and the responsibility of all citizens to...
Curated OER
Right on the Money
Students watch a video about different ways of making the same amounts of money and view a clip about the Denver Mint to discover how coins are made. They complete a Web activity on each coin's worth and find out facts about the penny.
Curated OER
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Coin Recognition & Value
In this coin recognition worksheet, students cut out pictures of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Students then glue the pictures in the appropriate boxes according to their values.
Curated OER
Clues and Coins
In this clues and coins instructional activity, students practice their math skills as they read 6 clues and then draw the coins to answer each question. Students also respond to 1 math word problem.
Curated OER
Place Value: Making Change with Canadian Money
In this place value: making change with Canadian money activity, learners use a spreadsheet and certain coins to practice and record how much change would be given from a $5 bill. A parent or tutor adjusts the questions to...
Curated OER
Let's Find Out About Money
First graders identify coins (pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters), and their attributes, including physical characteristics and value.
Curated OER
Values Auction
Students assess what they value and participate in a class auction. In this financial values activity, students complete a budget activity and use play money to participate in an auction. Students complete a related worksheet and take a...
Curated OER
Place Value and Subtraction With Regrouping
In this place value and subtraction worksheet, students place pennies in the chart and use them to put numbers in the correct place value and subtract. Students use the pennies as ones and use them in regrouping.
Curated OER
Counting Using Money
Second graders count fake money by grouping like coins together. For this counting lesson plan, 2nd graders complete worksheets provided in this lesson.
Curated OER
Pennies, Nickels, and Quarters: Missing Values
In this counting coins worksheet, students use their subtraction skills to solve 6 problems that require them to fill in the missing values.
Curated OER
Money Word Problems
In this money worksheet, students complete word problems about money and its total value, buying items, and more. Students complete 10 multiple choice problems.
Curated OER
I'm in the Money - Practical Money Skills
Students make a budget and utilize math skills to keep a record of what they spend. They use technology and spreadsheets to help them keep track of their money.
Curated OER
Currency Exchange
Learners investigate the currency exchange rate. In this middle school mathematics lesson, student use proportions to exchange between the U.S. dollar and the euro. Students come up with a product they would like to buy and...
Curated OER
Money as a Means of Exchange
First graders discover the term bartering as used to pay for wanted items. They play a bartering game to discover exchanging goods for wanted items and play the computer money game on the "Show-Me Economics" web site.
Curated OER
Money Pit
Sixth graders make a list of aspects of our culture found on a penny, and then observe another object based on another culture. In this culture lesson plan, 6th graders take their new object and research that culture.
Curated OER
Expected Value
Students discuss what expected value is, they are introduced to the concept of varyting payoffs. Students use a computer simulation of a "real world" example where expected value is used.