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Get Ready, Get Set, Squeeze!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. In this money counting and social studies instructional activity, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for...
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Bright Ideas for Bringing up Smart Savers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of saving money. In this saving money instructional activity, students read an article about saving money. Students discuss ways to save money and what makes it difficult to save money. Students compare...
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Basic Budgeting

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create a personal budget.  In this creating a personal budget lesson, students create a list of 3 necessary things they need to survive.  Students rank these things in order of importance and determine their...
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Holiday Shopping

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders find change for an amount given. In this real life subtraction lesson, 4th graders use an advertisement to select items to "buy." They figure out how much money they would pay the cashier and how much money they will get...
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Made Round To Go Round

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this lesson students investigate what it would cost to furnish one room of their choice by shopping on the Internet. Both Australian and American dollars are to be given for each item to demonstrate the difference between two...
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Worth Its Weight in Gold

For Students 2nd
In this comparing weights worksheet, 2nd graders compare and contrast the weight of three different coins and then calculate the answers to eight questions.
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Fashion Cents

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this using a math table worksheet, students solve 2 problems in which a table is made to determine the total cost of designing lunch boxes and shirts.
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Cents Sense

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting money worksheet, students solve 4 problems in which students are matched with their labeled piggy banks. Students read the clues and match the banks to each person.
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Scoring a Financial Education

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of money management. In this money management lesson, students read an article about students taking a finance course in high school and college. Students discuss the importance of money management. Students...
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A Gift for Mama

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students read a novel about savings and complete activities to define short and long term saving goals. In this income and savings activity, students read A Gift for Mama and answer discussion questions for it. Students define the terms...
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Let's Go Shopping!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students answer yes or no to the question "Could you buy the items below with only having $6 to spend?". In this money lesson plan, students multiply amounts of money in each problem to see how much they have to spend.
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What Is the Amount?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting money worksheet, students solve 8 problems in which picture symbols inside a robot's purse are decoded. Students count how much money is inside each purse. All sums are under one dollar.
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Shopping Trip

For Students 5th
In this number sense worksheet, 5th graders determine if they have enough money to purchases both toys. Students answer the four questions by circling yes or no.
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How much does soap cost?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice the division concept.  In this dividing instructional activity, 3rd graders watch a video that gives a simple division word problem. Students work collaboratively to find the solution.
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Find the Fewest

For Students 3rd
In this number sense worksheet, 3rd graders circle the fewest coins possible to show each amount given to answer four questions.
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The Price is Right

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this coin worksheet, students circle the coins to show the price of each of the 4 objects on the page. The prices are all under one dollar.
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Counting Pennies

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this penny counting worksheet, students solve 4 basic subtraction questions using numbers between 1 and 10. They count how many pennies were in the piggy bank to start with. They then count how many pennies were left after the bear...
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Grid and Percent It

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore percent. In this percent activity, students investigate how to represent percentages on a hundreds grid. Working independently, students solve mathematical problems involving percentages.
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Coin Crossword

For Students 3rd
In this reasoning activity students read the clues provided and fill in the five blanks with the correct coin to complete the crossword.
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Lesson Plan 2: Linear Inequalities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate linear inequalities and the associated symbols. After a teacher demonstration, they translate given phrases into symbols. Students solve and graph solutions to linear inequalities. Using newspapers, they locate...
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Shopping Detective

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this consumer math worksheet, students analyze the prices on 4 food items in a store. Students solve 7 word problems with the information.
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File Card Bridges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make different variations of file card bridges and predict how much weight it will hold. In this file card bridges lesson plan, students put file cards between books in different ways and predict how many pennies it will hold.
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Problem Solving: Steps and Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of problem solving strategies. In this problem solving strategies lesson, students discuss methods for solving problems such as re-reading a problem, stating the facts, drawing a picture and so on. Students...
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Saving Money Through Mathematics

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss light sources and collect data about energy sources. They compare data and create a multiple line graph showing energy used by light sources for each student in the group. They present their graphs and write a...