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Which Sweet Heart Candy Is the Best Deal?
Get the most Valentine's candy for your money with a fun math activity! After examining three deals for buying candy hearts in bulk, young mathematicians decide which deal is the best and use bar graphs to demonstrate their claim. They...
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Which is the Best Deal on Candy?
Buying enough candy for trick-or-treaters without spending a lot of money can be the ultimate Halloween trick. Middle schoolers solve two holiday-themed word problems to determine which brand of candy is the better deal, based on cost...
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Adding Money
In this consumer math addition instructional activity, students add three-digit dollars and cents numbers with regrouping. Students solve 20 problems.
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Saving and Investing: Investing for the Future
A fine lesson plan on saving and investing is here for you and your middle schoolers. In it, learners explore the values of time and money, and discover how small amounts of money invested over time can grow into a large "pot of gold."...
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Five Thousand Dollars!
How does consumerism affect global poverty? Upper graders find out about cost benefit, wants and needs, and making good consumer choices as they explore this global topic. They role-play an impulse spending experience and work through...
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Creating a Budget
Learning to create and maintain a budget is an important life skill. Guide individuals in the discovery of their spending habits and how to track them. They then use what they learned to create a budget and make decisions on where they...
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We're in the Money
Students study money and its place in the economy. In this middle school Consumer Math lesson plan, students explore the barter system and the need for money. Students explore how money works in society and explore modern money and...
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Money and Change
In this consumer math instructional activity, students estimate and then multiply the given money amounts. Students also practice finding change. There are seven problems to complete.
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Sunshine Math-3
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 8 varied problems including consumer math, fractions, ordered pairs, measurement and mental math.
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Money Math Lessons for Life
An outstanding lesson on financial literacy is here for you. Learners are presented with six scenarios, then compute the amount of savings they will have in their accounts. They complete a series of exercises designed to teach them that...
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Grade 1 Math: Addition and Subtraction 3
In this consumer math activity, 1st graders practice counting coins. They circle the group of coins that are equal to the given money amount. They count dimes, nickels, and pennies.
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Money Math Challenge 3
In this finding the total amounts worksheet, learners add the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amounts of the various combinations. Students solve 6 problems.
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Smart- Counting Coins
Learners discover the name and value of coins. In this counting money lesson, students identify heads and tails of coins and the value of each coin. Learners visit websites and play games. Students then write a poem about money.
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Count On It!
Students investigate money. In this consumer math lesson, students use coins, identify their value, then group them in various ways to equal a dollar.
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Multiply Money
In this finding the products consumer math activity, students multiply dollars and cents by one-digit numbers. Students solve 15 problems.
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Add the Coins
In this finding the total amount of coins worksheet, learners add pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Students solve 10 consumer math problems.
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Calculating Simple Interest
Interest can be both a best friend and an enemy...show your learners how it can manifest through this set of 10 word problems. For each, they calculate time, principle, interest, or rate and choose an answer from multiple choice...
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Retirement Planning
It's never too early to start saving for retirement. In fact, the earlier one starts, the better! Use this retirement planning activity to teach the importance of a retirement strategy and why to start at a young age.
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Let's Go Shopping challenge
In this choosing items to purchase and counting coins worksheet, students circle two items in each set to purchase and use the price tags to circle the total coins needed. Students solve three problems.
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Leveled Problem Solving: Histograms
In this using data, frequency table, and histogram to solve word problems worksheet, students solve problems about prices of toys and numbers of toys sold to solve consumer mathematics problems. Students solve six problems.
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Savings Accounts and Interest
First graders study money, banks, and getting interest on money. In this consumer math lesson plan, 1st graders listen to Stan and Jan Berenstain's, Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money. They use the concepts in the book to discuss...
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Money 9.1
In this counting money worksheet, students complete several different exercises that help them understand money and how to count both cents and dollars.
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Counting Coins
Second graders explore the American monetary system by utilizing different denominations. In this currency lesson, 2nd graders participate in a die rolling activity in which they collect coins based on the rolled number. Students add...
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Expense Tracking
Where does all your money go? Individuals keep a record of the money they spend over the course of 30 days. They then categorize where they are spending their money and write an essay detailing their findings.