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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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Solving Linear Inequalities
Walk the class through the steps of how to evaluate linear inequalities in one variable and graph the solution set. Define and discuss key vocabulary terms, then have individuals work problems of varying difficulty. Included are word...
Illustrative Mathematics
Centerpiece
Learners hear wedding bells in this problem set, as they help a fictional bride plan the centerpieces for her wedding reception. Algebra is married to geometry as volume, aesthetics, and budgeting all come into play. Learners are...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Buying Chips and Candy
As a middle school assessment task, learners first two write equations representing their purchase of chips and candy bars. They then solve the system of equations to find the price of each item.
Kenan Fellows
How Does an Unhealthy Diet Influence our Health and Well-Being?
You are what you eat, or so they say! After surveying family and friends on a week of eating habits, learners analyze the data for patterns. They compare different variables such as fats and cost, fats and calories, or fats and LDLs.
Mathematics Vision Project
Module 3: Polynomial Functions
An informative module highlights eight polynomial concepts. Learners work with polynomial functions, expressions, and equations through graphing, simplifying, and solving.
Illustrative Mathematics
Average Cost
Here is an activity that presents a good example of a function modeling a relationship between two quantities. John is making DVDs of his friend's favorite shows and needs to know how much to charge his friend to cover the cost of making...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Mixture Problems
Mix up your lessons with the resource on mixture problems. Scholars use manipulatives to model and solve mixture problems. Individuals then set up both one- and two-variable equations to solve the problems.
Mathed Up!
Best Buys
Which scenario is the better deal? Class members examine nine scenarios to determine which choice offers a better deal. Pupils decide whether they need to find unit costs or total prices to compare the two options.
Mathed Up!
Pie Charts
Representing data is as easy as pie. Class members construct pie charts given a frequency table. Individuals then determine the size of the angles needed for each sector and interpret the size of sectors within the context of frequency....
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Restaurant Tipping Lesson
What do you do after a good meal, tip the server of course. The class calculates the appropriate tip to leave at a restaurant given certain bills. They identify the bill before and after tax and find the correct tip. A great way to put...
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Place Value Tens and Ones
Learners use manipulative to identify the ones and tens digit in a number, use pictorial representation to identify the ones and tens digit in a number and determine the value of a number given tens and ones.
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Ohio Virtual Academy: Learning Online
Young scholars spend time researching online education facilities. After interviewing teachers, they develop a survey on how productive online education sites are to its students. They write a story for the school newspaper about this...
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Basic Budgeting
Students create a personal budget. In this creating a personal budget instructional activity, students create a list of 3 necessary things they need to survive. Students rank these things in order of importance and determine...
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Interpreting Remainders
In this remainders worksheet, 4th graders practice solving 2 word problems involving division math problems with remainders. Students answer 2 multiple choice questions.
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Pets Math Word Problems
In this math word problems worksheet, students read the 2 story problems on the page, each of which has to do with pets. They then use the work space to solve the answer, and then write it on the blank provided.
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Penny Counting
In this penny counting activity, students solve 4 story problems in which three digit numbers are added or subtracted. All problems pertain to pennies; there will be regrouping.
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Sibling Rivalry
In this sibling rivalry worksheet, students determine the dollar amounts spent under given conditions. They identify the variable and write an algebraic equation. This one-page worksheet contains 1 multi-step problem. ...
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You Can Bank on Me!
Students identify reasons people choose to donate. For this donating lesson, students contrast the words spend, save, and donate. Students learn a song about donating, brainstorm reasons to give, and make sound choices with their money.
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Month 2 Budget
For this consumer mathematics worksheet, students complete a monthly budget by completing each category on the sheet. They fill in the blanks and calculate their totals for month two.
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Month 5 Budget
For this consumer mathematics worksheet, learners complete the following statements with their appropriate information. Then they calculate their total expenses and subtract a portion for savings.
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Month 6 Budget
In this consumer mathematics instructional activity, learners complete each statement with their appropriate information. Then they calculate their total expenses for month six and subtract a portion for savings.
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Month 3 Budget
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, learners complete a monthly budget form by filling each of the categories. They fill in their total expenses for each category and calculate their budget for month three.
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Summer Trip
Seventh graders utilize the Internet for use of search engines to plan a trip. They research and develop expenses for a trip and divide and round the cost of things to the nearest tenth.