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New Cars? Selecting and Financing

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders determine probabilities of real-life events such as life expectancies, winning a lottery ticket, and the break-even premium. They deduce what percent of markup is. Students are able to compare terms for financing a car...
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Planning A Household Budget

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students experience real life by utilizing math skills to plan a household budget and enhance their financial planning skills.
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The Art of Budgeting

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners create a plan to achieve personal and financial goals. In this budgeting goals lesson, students identify their sources of income and discuss being financially independent. Learners record their monthly expenditures and present a...
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The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a Cirlce Map about time. They recall times during the grouchy ladybugs travels, and add dots on ladybugs using turn-around facts. Pupils correctly sequence the events of The Grouchy Ladybug. Students compose new...
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The Cost of College: Financing Your Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
With college tuition at an all-time high, high school students must consider the financial obligations of attending higher education, as well as the impact of college on future career opportunities. Pupils will complete...
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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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Budgeting 101

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify various sources of income and discern between needs and wants as they also learn to create a personal budget.  In this personal budget lesson, student understand financial scenarios as they relate to different ways...
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Waste Audit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of mental math. They perform calculations as following: recognizing a half, three quarters, and tenths. Students are also challenged to extend skills to making calculation...
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Pictures Telling Stories

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students see the importance of primary sources in the study of history, but also the limitations of relying only on primary sources of taking the money, as it were, at face value.
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Let's Party like its 1849

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore prairie life. In this Oregon Trail lesson, students read literature regarding the move west and participate in cross-curricular activities. Young scholars should take digital photographs of the participation in...
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Seeing Numbers In Tens And Ones

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders develop the skill of place values up to the tens place. They practice identifying the values of 2 digit numbers and writing the correlating values with counting. They use the example of money to make the instructional...
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Away we Go

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students work in groups to calculate the costs of a trip to Six Flags amusement park. In this domain and range lesson, students calculate the least and greatest amounts of money needed for tickets, food, souvenirs, and airplane tickets.
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Needs and Wants

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners examine the difference between psychological needs and wants to control spending.
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Sink or Float

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore water properties by conducting a class experiment. In this buoyancy lesson, students make predictions as to whether or not specific objects will sink or float in water. Students conduct the experiment and record their...
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Multiplication Word Problems Using Different Representations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students solve multiplication word problems by using base 10 blocks and drawing pictures. In this multiplication lesson plan, students also write a reflection of their work.
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Not Everything is More Expensive

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore percent increases and decreases. They calculate the percent increase and decrease. Students use math to solve problems and communicate. They apply the given formula for percent increase/decrease.
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Shape Up!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate measurement through the use of literature through this series of lessons.
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A Budget Can Help Young People Cut Their Spending

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting lesson, students read an article about how a budget helps young adults keep track of their spending. Students discuss financial issues that young adults have to deal with as...
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Budgeting Makes a Difference!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a budget for either a single parent, or a household with two adults and a child. They develop a list of expenses, and create a PowerPoint presentation.
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Financial Dieters Make Progress

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students give financial advice. In this financial lesson, students read real-life financial problems. They explore the problem and make recommendations for a financial remedy.
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Pounds and Ounces: It's All About Weight

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore number sense by participating in a measurement estimation activity. In this weight lesson, 1st graders discuss the differences between measurement units, both English and Metric. Students examine a loaf of bread to...
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Introduction to Fractions Using Cuisenaire Rods

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use Cuisenaire rods in order to discover how to represent fractions with real objects. In this lesson on fractions, 5th graders first examine and learn the colors, lengths, and numerical values of each rod; then, students...
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An Academic, Economic, Cultural, and Political Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners reflect on how many board games they've played have African Americans, their culture or history incorporated within. They identify four street games and three card games that appeal to African Americans. They play the...
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Buoyancy: Who Sank the Boat?

For Teachers K
Students examine whether objects will sink or float.  In this buoyancy lesson students bring in objects and experiment to see if they sink or float.