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Substitution "Plugging In"
The old plug and chug method will help the class investigate functional notation. They explore the meaning of functional notation, f(x), and determine the functional value of given values. The lesson includes two application problems and...
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The Mathematics Behind a Structured Savings Plan
Make your money work for you. Future economists learn how to apply sigma notation and how to calculate the sum of a finite geometric series. The skill is essential in determining the future value of a structured savings plan with...
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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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Learning Economics through Comics
Students summarize the historical development of money. In this economics activity, students describe the process of bartering and explain how money facilitates trade and exchange. Students also define and describe inflation and a modern...
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Approximation of Pi
High schoolers explore the concept of Pi. For this Pi lesson, students measure the circumference and diameter of a circle. High schoolers record the diameter and circumference measurements from their classmates. ...
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Compounding with 100% Interest Rates
Your young economists will be amazed at the effect of compounding interest more frequently in this collaborative task about making sound financial choices. Learners are walked through the calculations of a couple of examples and then...
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Could It Happen Again?
The final lesson plan in a series of six about the Great Depression focuses on the Federal Reserve's role in stabilizing the economy.
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Financial Forces: Understanding Taxes and Inflation
Take the opportunity to offer your young adults some important financial wisdom on the way taxes and inflation will affect their lives in the future. Through discussion and review of different real-world scenarios provided...
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Expressing Money Value in Words
In this money value to words worksheet, students write a total of 18 given currency values in words. An answer key is included. A reference website is given for additional resources.
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How Much is that Name?
Students explore money counting. In this money problem solving lesson, students calculate how much money their name is "worth" using the corresponding alphabet letters which have been assigned a coin value.
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Technology: Money Equivalency
First graders,working on computers, drag coins into boxes to equal amounts pictured. Following a demonstration, they demonstrate how to type number sentences. As an extension, 1st graders create equivalent amounts using specific numbers...
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How Many Cents?
In this money learning exercise, students solve 4 problems in which the value of sets of dollar bills is calculated. Example: 9 dollars = 900 cents.
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Money Circulation: A Story of Trade and Commerce
Students are introduced to the meaning, symbolism, and value of the quarter. They determine the percentage of total monetary value held in quarters and graph the results. Students infer about the U.S. Mint's distrubution of coins. They...
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A Lesson to Accompany "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy"
Students investigate the role of money in the colonial economy. In this colonial economy lesson, students participate in a trading activity, read the booklet "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy," participate in an...
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Trading Faces
Students use addition to determine values of coin combinations. They play a game where they come up with possible trades: two nickels for a dime and complete a tally worksheet. There are other lessons in this unit.
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Parts of a Whole
Students recognize coins are worth a fraction of a dollar. They represent the value of different coins by shading in their equivalent fractional parts in the circle. They understand that fractions are part of a whole.
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Count Coins and Bills
Students study the names and values of different denominations of paper money, count sets of money that include both coins and bills. They complete a money chart, read and solve word problems.
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Math on a Roll
Students practice various math skills using a polyhedral die. In this dice game lesson plan, students practice multiplication, addition, place value, and money using games. Standard dice may be used instead of a polyhedral die with...
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Nickels and Pennies
In this counting coins worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 6 problems that require them to identify the value of the money shown.
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Dimes and Pennies
In this counting coins worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 6 problems that require them to identify the value of the money shown.
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Piggy Bank Math
Students practice solving money problems. In this counting coins lesson, students follow the outlined steps and use mixed operations to determine the coin combinations needed to solve a math word problem.
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Money Alphabet
Warm up your math class with this interesting game idea. This single slide contains the letters of the alphabet, each letter has an assigned value, kids write out the name of their favorite football team and use the monetary values to...
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Money Makes the World Go 'Round
Students examine what a basic unit of currency means and how it affects world finances.
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Coin Motion
Students recognize coins and their values and count coin groups. They play a game where when music is turned on they skip, hop, jog and when it is turned off, they go to a spot in the room marked with the same coin or value as is in...