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Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars Lesson PlanWriting Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars Lesson Plan
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Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars

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In this lesson, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Learners will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and then they must respond to an online prompt regarding their thinking process. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

counting money, spending money

Additional Tags

interdisciplinary writing, writing about math, northern nevada writing project, numberfix, writingfix, problem solving, spending, writing across the curriculum

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RI.K.8 RI.1.8 W.1.7 W.K.1 W.K.5 W.K.6

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