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"Smart" by Shel Silverstein
Find out just how smart your young mathematicians are with this cross-curricular math and language arts lesson. After first reading Shel Silverstein's poem "Smart", students draw pictures of coins to model the different exchanges...
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Energy Choices Game
Here's a fun game on a very serious matter. Scholars play a board game to learn about personal energy use and consumption. They see how various choices affect their energy use and costs, and then apply this knowledge to brainstorm ways...
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Word Problems Mixture, Distance, Money and Integer
In this word problem activity, students read mixture, distance, money, and integer problems. They write algebraic equations and solve them. This one-page activity contains 32 multi-step problems. Answers are provided at...
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Counting Money - up to $10
In this counting money activity, learners count coins and bills up to $10 in each problem. Students complete 10 problems total on this activity.
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Counting Money
In this counting money worksheet, students count up amounts of money that contain coins and bills up to $5. Students complete 10 problems.
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Count Dollars and Cents
In this counting money practice instructional activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to count dollars and cents.
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The Euro: Money Changes Everything
Ninth graders compare the Euro with the purchasing power of the US dollar. In this economic lesson, 9th graders evaluate the value of the Euro through various exercises. Students research the currency exchange rates of the Euro.
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Musical Money
Third graders participate in the game Musical Money. The game Musical Money is fashioned after the game Musical Chairs, but students count money using a time limit.
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Add and Subtract Money
In this counting money worksheet, students solve the six word problems by adding or subtracting the money word problems. Students solve six word problems.
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Spending - Maintaining the skill of money
Third graders practice making change with money. In this subtraction lesson, 3rd graders watch a video about money. Students investigate what it means to earn money, spend it, and find their change.
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SPENDING: Maintaining the Skill of Money
Fourth graders explore the concept of maintaining money. In this personal finance lesson, 4th graders earn "money" for cleaning their classroom desks. Students spend the "money" in the classroom and practice making change.
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Money Matters
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences. In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money....
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Compare And Select Picture That Shows More Money.
In this money learning exercise, 2nd graders compare and select the picture that shows more money in 4 problems. There are a mixture of coins and bills.
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Reviewing Money
Students review the concepts on money. In this consumer math lesson, students review the vocabulary and value of each coin. Students are shown coins and identify each one's name and value. Students take an included test on the value of...
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Ch-Ch-Ching Cafe: Play Restaurant Make Change
Fourth graders make change by participating in a role-play restaurant activity. In this making change activity, 4th graders use their math skills to compare prices and compute bills in a role play restaurant activity.
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Iditarod Math Challenge
For this Iditarod worksheet, learners complete word problems about the money, booties, time, and more about the Iditarod. Students complete fifteen problems.
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Dolphin Feed
Gather money with porpoise. Individuals click on a combination of coins and bills to match the displayed amount of money. Each collection feeds a dolphin, and the player that gathers the most correct amounts wins the online game.
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Word Problems Mixture, Distance, Money, and Integers
For this algebra worksheet, students solve problems dealing with mixture, distance, money and integer. There are 32 questions dealing with word problems.
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Write and Solve Equations
Here is a problem solving worksheet in which learners read six story problems. They write an equation and then solve the problem. Basic addition and subtraction will be used.
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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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Right on the Money
Students watch a video about different ways of making the same amounts of money and view a clip about the Denver Mint to discover how coins are made. They complete a Web activity on each coin's worth and find out facts about the penny.
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Making Change
Second graders explore how to incorporate a new type of technology, the cash register and/or a calculator, as a motivational tool for solving real life problems. They practice estimating money and counting back change from $20.00.
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Addition Word Problems #2
Expose scholars to the ways addition is constantly used through 15 word problems. Many of these have more than two addends, and several involve money math and adding numbers with decimals to the hundredths place. Learners also must use...
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Banking And Making Change
Twelfth graders simulate making purchases based on infromation located in supermarket flyers. Working in groups, 12th graders alternately make purchases and calculate change from a given amount. Students role play common bank...