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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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Saving and Investing
You have to have money to make money, especially in the world of banking and investments. High schoolers learn about interest rates, saving and investment options, and ways to stay aware of their money's security and earning ability with...
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It's Your Paycheck
Beyond reading and arithmetic, one of the most important skills for graduating seniors to have is fiscal literacy and responsibility. Start them on the right financial track with nine lessons that focus on a variety of important personal...
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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 instructional activity, 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, 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.
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Lemonade For Sale
2-3rd graders listen to the story, Lemonade for Sale, by Stuart J. Murphy. In the story, children produce and sell lemonade to raise money for their clubhouse, create a product, classify the resources used in production as natural...
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Savers & Borrowers: Financial Markets in the United States
Investigate the current financial market and have your class explore savings, borrowing, financial markets, mutual funds, and the stock market. This four-part lesson is designed to help students become knowledgeable and informed consumers.
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Counting Change and Changing Coins
Second graders demonstrate how to count change. In this consumer math lesson, 2nd graders read the book The Penny Pot and identify the value of coins. Students complete a worksheet to practice counting coins.
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Money Addition (E)
In this consumer math worksheet, students find the sums in 20 problems. They add three digit money amounts while using regrouping as needed.
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Can You Match the Coin's Name?
In this consumer math worksheet, students draw a line between each matching coin and its name. They match the words penny, nickel, quarter, dime and half dollar.
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Coins - Price
In this consumer math worksheet, learners look at a price tag that is shown in each of 5 boxes. They circle the coins, which include dimes, pennies, and quarters, that match the price.
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Money Word Problems Test
In this solving story problems with money worksheet, students find the amount of change and coins needed to solve. Students solve nine problems.
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Shopping Detective
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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Making Decisions
A set of quizzes and assessments would make a great companion to your lesson on making decisions and opportunity risks. Learners watch a PowerPoint before answering multiple choice questions about interest rates, saving money, and the...
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Money Amounts
In this consumer math worksheet, students write the amount of money they see in decimal form. They identify and total both paper money and coins in 4 examples. They identify bills up to $100 and coins from a penny to a dollar.
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Write the Money in Decimal Form
In this consumer math worksheet, learners total the monetary amounts using both paper money and coins in 4 examples. They work with paper money up to $50 bill and coins up to quarters.
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Reviewing Money
Students review the concepts on money. In this consumer math lesson, students review the vocabulary and value of each coin. Students are shown coins and identify each one's name and value. Students take an included test on the value of...
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Saving Money
In this consumer math activity, 5th graders read a word problem describing a money earning scenario. Students solve to answer two short-answer questions about the word problem.
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What Is Money?
Early learners participate in a bartering activity during which they make connections to money and consumer concepts. They simulate buying and selling situations with one another then visit an exhibit at the Federal Reserve Bank of...