Dollars and Sense

In this self-assessment worksheet, middle schoolers brainstorm a list of 10 common sense things to do to remain gambling-free after reading a brief description of what common sense is.

To investigate the price of bananas in order to evaluate basic counting and number sense skills, your mathematicians focus upon multiplication and problem solving that incorporates social studies in the form of building awareness about...

Sweethearts® candies are a beloved Valentine's Day treat—so much so that eight billion hearts are produced every year around the world! Learners use number sense reasoning and critical thinking to solve nine word problems about the...

Students plan a trip.  For this trip planning lesson, students use a map to find where they would like to visit with a pretend family of 4. They get a specific amount of money and time and need to decide where they will stay and what...

Fourth graders create a class store where they participate in activities that simulate buying and selling in a store environment. In this class store lesson plan, 4th graders buy and sell products, create recipes, count money, count...

Students apply the economic principles of supply and demand, market economy, competition, unemployment rate, exports and imports and currency exchange rate to China's present economic success and Russia's economic strife.

Young scholars analyze magazine advertisements that appeal to them. They explore how tobacco companies continue to target teens in magazine advertisements. They explore how advertisers select magazine ad space.

Send your enthusiastic entrepreneurs' career sense into motion with a business-minded lesson plan. They review and dissect business plans before applying their findings to their own business venture. Scholars then identify whether or not...

Parents may seem especially stressed around tax time, but learners may not realize this civic duty has a long history connected to the nation's founding. Scholars trace the history of taxes in our country, from the American Revolution up...