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Economics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students simulate operating a coal mine and calculating the expense of mining operations by choosing a chocolate chip cookie, buying tools to mine the chocolate chips and using paper money to pay for the expense of mining.
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Using the Calculator (Part II)

For Teachers 1st
First graders watch a demonstration by their teacher to see how to use a calculator. They identify the numbers being used and input them into the calculator. On a worksheet, they record the answer and use coins to show the total.
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Using The Calculator

For Teachers 1st
First graders use a calculator to total money quantities. They use plastic coins to represent the cost of an entire purchase. Students model specific dollar amounts and how to make change.
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Shopping

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students do a shopping simulation in order to have a chance to apply their math skills in a real life fashion. They decide how much money they have, what they want to buy, if they have enough money and how much change they should get back.
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Savings

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the different ways to save money and the reasons for doing so. They use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (with whole numberrs, fractions, decimals, and/or percents, mixed numbers) to solve...
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Shopping

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders simulate a shopping experience. Students are given a specified amount of money and they must spend it. Students choose five items they wish to purchase and determine if they can afford the items.
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Mini Economy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen as the teacher explains the Mini Economy to be activated in the classroom in the next few weeks. They examine how they to apply for jobs, make money, determine how to save it, and how monetary mishaps occur...
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Round to the Nearest Whole $

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rounding money worksheet, students identify the money amounts in each examples and round to the nearest dollar for the 10 examples.
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Pictures of Coins: Pounds and Pence

For Students 4th - 5th
In this English coins worksheet, students analyze pictures of English coins. These may be cut out or used for any math lesson; there are no directions. Included are: one penny, two, five, ten, twenty and fifty pence, one pound.
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Great Graphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create graphs by tabulating their preferences among 10 state quarters. They examine quarters and tally their favorites. They complete a worksheet. There are more lesson plans included in this unit.
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Budget Hungry

For Teachers 2nd
Young elementary students create an expense budget for a meal at a restaurant. They learn the basic communication and etiquette skills needed to successfully go on a field trip to implement the budgets they created.
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Creditors’ Criteria and Borrowers’ Rights and Responsibilities

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Discover what criteria creditors use for making loans (the 3 Cs of Credit), and impress upon your young adults the rights and responsibilities related to using credit. Pupils role play as individuals seeking or providing credit, as well...
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Architects in Action

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Hands-on and real-world applications are great ways to teach mathematical concepts. Creative thinkers examine how ratios are used to create scale models of buildings and structures. They practice working with ratios by looking at a map...
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Dividing with Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Use paper strips or models to relate division problems to division of fraction problems. Since the materials can be broken up, it helps them to show how they can complete repeated subtraction with fractions and not just whole numbers.
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Digger and the Gang

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Help online friends Digger and Sprat from the BBC series to solve math problems! In a series of activities, your class will use data sets to calculate measurements, averages, means, and probabilities. The class completes worksheets and...
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Three-Digit Addition

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners work with hundreds place value, create and manipulate three-digit addition problems, and add three-digit numbers.
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The Price is Right

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, through various activities, explore online databases. Using the internet, students explore the distributors websites. They collect specific information on selected products. An spreadsheet with price comparisons is developed....
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The Lesson: Crises

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students take a closer look at world issues. For this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to study financial awareness. Students examine the credit crunch and the global food crisis.
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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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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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Finding Mass

For Teachers 8th
Student measure mass to discover how pennies have changed in their composition. In this measurement lesson, 8th graders investigate through an open-ended problem to discover how the US pennies composition changed in the 1980's.
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A Family Spending Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate family expenditures. In this family budget lesson, students examine the wages and expenditures of family and then create a monthly budget for the family to follow.
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What Is Money?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students 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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