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Basic Budgeting

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create a personal budget.  In this creating a personal budget lesson plan, 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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Scoring a Financial Education

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of money management. For 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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In the Bag!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students calculate how many quarters are in a $1,000 bag (after learning the dollar value of filled coin bags). They explain their problem-solving strategy using pictures, numbers, equations, and/or words.
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Lemonade Business Stock Market Intro

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students role play as business owners in order to learn about how certain aspects of business works. For this 3rd - 6th grade lesson plan, students experience creating and running their own business, including earning profits and...
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Recession Lesson: The Silver Lining of the Economic Downturn

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss money and interest.  In this discussing money and interest instructional activity, students discuss positives of an economic recession.  Students discuss how savings rates have increased over time and the...
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Quarter Combos

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a review game that allows them to practice identifying coins and their values and create coin combinations that equal 25 cents.
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How much does soap cost?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice the division concept.  In this dividing lesson, 3rd graders watch a video that gives a simple division word problem. Students work collaboratively to find the solution.
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Making Cents of Division

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use pennies as manipulatives to solve simple division problems. They create division number sentences to correspond with each exercise. This is a good, hands-on way to teach the concept of division.
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Cell Phone Plans

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students relate the use of a cell phone to math. In this algebra instructional activity, students collect data on the usage of their phones and plot it. They analyze the graph and make predictions based on the rate per minute.
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What Is Money?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners discuss the difference between earned and unearned income. They use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and/or percents, mixed numbers) to solve real-world math problems...
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Managing Your Money

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discuss different money management options in a variety of situations. They identify moments to share, spend and save money.
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Exchanging Money in the Dominican Republic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of the international exchange rate. They explore a website, identify the value of the Dominican peso, calculate the value of bills and coins in Dominican pesos and U.S. dollars, and complete various worksheets.
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An American Spy with Money To Spend

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use their imagination, math, reading, computer, geography, and social studies skills in this unique, innovative, and fun lesson where students pretend to be international spies!
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Are You Money Smart?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners figure out and discuss the irony of this coin-centric poem. They also practice persuasive letter writing, and identify and count coin/money values.
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Tobacco Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how much money they can save by not smoking.
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Spending Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders add and subtract amounts of money.
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Currency Exchange Rates

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students, in groups, choose three countries from which to investigate exchange rates versus the US dollar. Using Internet research they follow daily exchange rates and compute the percentage change. They compile data and prepare and...
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All Those Advertising Dollars!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars calculate percent increases (or percent decreases) for the top 25 companies in terms of advertising dollars spent during a year.
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A Family Day Out

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use all four operations to solve word problems involving money. A story about a family's day trip is included with sample word problems included. They must calculate costs, change, and budgeting. They report their calculations...
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Retirement: Show Me the Money!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the concept of retirement finances. In this retirement finances lesson, students discuss what it means to save, invest, risk, or the time value of money. Students play the stock market game. Students interview a parent...
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Stock Market Math

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students select a company that they like and using technology, in teams, they prepare a class presentation about their company. The class have the option to buy stock or choose a competitor. Each team research a company and buy...
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A Biblical Perspective

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars analyze money using a Biblical and business perspective. In this algebra lesson, students define their money relationship biblically and in a business fashion. They compare their view with the view of someone in the Gold...
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A Day to Remember!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study math. For this real-life problem solving lesson, students work on their skills dealing with time and money. They work in small groups on various time and money word problems and by the final day they have a final problem...
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Being Thrifty is So Nifty

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch a video that focusing on budgeting while completing worksheets that include charts. They brainstorm ideas for budgeting time and money. They culminate the activity by planning an order from two different restaurants.

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