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Avoiding Consumer Fraud: Financial Scams and Schemes
Young consumers get a hefty dose of information on how fraud can put their financial health at risk. The resource provides detailed lecture notes, scaffolded notetaking sheets, vocabulary worksheets, transparencies, and seven links to...
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Real-Life Problems: Money
Help your fourth graders become responsible consumers with this math worksheet! They solve six word problems about buying toys using the four operations. An example at the top of the page helps pupils write out the necessary equations...
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Counting Coins
Practice counting money in this helpful worksheet. Young consumers add four separate sets of coins, and then determine how much more money they need to reach a certain amount. Pictures of coins are provided, making this worksheet a good...
Practical Money Skills
Making Money
Prepare your class for a life of financial literacy and stability with a unit about making money. Three lessons guides learners through the process of preparing a resume, interviewing for a job, and reading a pay stub.
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How Much Money?
Sixth graders count money. In this money instructional activity, 6th graders count sets of coins and dollar bills. During specified activities, they total orders and calculate the amont of change a customer should receive. Students...
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Consumer Borrowing and Spending
Credit can be confusing for teens, some of whom are already using credit cards. Clear up misconceptions with this group research activity which has a solid outline with a lot of room to adjust to your needs and resources. Groups are...
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Personal Finance Project Resource Book
Balancing a budget, paying taxes, and buying a home may feel out of reach for your high schoolers, but in their adult years they will thank you for the early tips. A set of five lessons integrates applicable money math activities with...
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Which Sweet Heart Candy Is the Best Deal?
Get the most Valentine's candy for your money with a fun math activity! After examining three deals for buying candy hearts in bulk, young mathematicians decide which deal is the best and use bar graphs to demonstrate their claim. They...
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Which is the Best Deal on Candy?
Buying enough candy for trick-or-treaters without spending a lot of money can be the ultimate Halloween trick. Middle schoolers solve two holiday-themed word problems to determine which brand of candy is the better deal, based on cost...
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Adding Money
In this consumer math addition learning exercise, students add three-digit dollars and cents numbers with regrouping. Students solve 20 problems.
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Using Coins
Kids can use coins to boost their mathematical know-how. Using this presentation as an activity guide, they identify coin value, skip count by 5's and 10's, come up with various ways to make given denominations, solve coin related word...
PwC Financial Literacy
Saving and Investing: Investing for the Future
A fine lesson on saving and investing is here for you and your middle schoolers. In it, learners explore the values of time and money, and discover how small amounts of money invested over time can grow into a large "pot of gold." They...
Learning to Give
Five Thousand Dollars!
How does consumerism affect global poverty? Upper graders find out about cost benefit, wants and needs, and making good consumer choices as they explore this global topic. They role-play an impulse spending experience and work through...
Federal Reserve Bank
Creating a Budget
Learning to create and maintain a budget is an important life skill. Guide individuals in the discovery of their spending habits and how to track them. They then use what they learned to create a budget and make decisions on where they...
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We're in the Money
Young scholars study money and its place in the economy. In this middle school Consumer Math lesson, students explore the barter system and the need for money. Young scholars explore how money works in society and explore modern money...
Math Mammoth
Money and Change
In this consumer math instructional activity, students estimate and then multiply the given money amounts. Students also practice finding change. There are seven problems to complete.
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Sunshine Math-3
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 8 varied problems including consumer math, fractions, ordered pairs, measurement and mental math.
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Money Math Lessons for Life
An outstanding instructional activity on financial literacy is here for you. Learners are presented with six scenarios, then compute the amount of savings they will have in their accounts. They complete a series of exercises designed to...
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Grade 1 Math: Addition and Subtraction 3
In this consumer math worksheet, 1st graders practice counting coins. They circle the group of coins that are equal to the given money amount. They count dimes, nickels, and pennies.
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Money Math Challenge 3
In this finding the total amounts worksheet, students add the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amounts of the various combinations. Students solve 6 problems.
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Smart- Counting Coins
Students discover the name and value of coins. In this counting money lesson, students identify heads and tails of coins and the value of each coin. Students visit websites and play games. Students then write a poem about money.
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Count On It!
Students investigate money. In this consumer math lesson, students use coins, identify their value, then group them in various ways to equal a dollar.
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Multiply Money
In this finding the products consumer math worksheet, learners multiply dollars and cents by one-digit numbers. Students solve 15 problems.
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Add the Coins
In this finding the total amount of coins learning exercise, learners add pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Students solve 10 consumer math problems.