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Students explore budgeting. In this finance and math lesson, students brainstorm ways in which households could save money. Students view websites that give cost reducing ideas. Students complete an expense comparison chart and use the data gathered from all of the students to construct and analyze a bar graph.

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bar graphs, graphs, basic operations, data analysis

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bar graphs, expense comparison chart, interpreting data, reducing expenses, whole number operations, choose scale units to graph, interpret unit scale, math
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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
Math
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5 days
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