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Brain Boosters - Using Money
If you have to feed 8 people are given a $20 budget at the grocery store, what will you buy? Have your youngsters complete these story problems and see how they plan on solving this challenge.
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Book Title: You Can’t Buy a Dinosaur with a Dime
Students explore the concepts of multiple digit addition and subtraction. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, students read the book You Can’t Buy a Dinosaur with a Dime and then discuss methods for solving a...
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Estimate or Compute?
In this computation and estimation worksheet, students take turns with a partner, read the first problem, and determine if the problem requires estimation or computation and circle the matching letter. Students then solve the word...
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Guest Teacher Plans Grade 4
Creating substitute plans may not be the highlight of your workday. Make the task less daunting with a general, day-long plan covering math, reading, word work, and writing.
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Bottleneck
In this paper clips activity, students solve a word problem where they move paper clips around in cups. Students complete 1 complex problem.
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Home Living / Daily Living: Shopping List 2
I've done this exercise with my special needs learners more times than I can count. They practice getting ready to shop at the grocery store by identifying items on their shopping list. They match grocery items to the proper department...
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Grocery Shopping Trip - Coin Values
In this coin value matching instructional activity, students cut out pictures of coins that show the monetary amounts on them. They place the coins on the instructional activity to show what is needed to pay for each grocery item.
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Mobile Phone Packages
For this consumer math worksheet, students examine 3 mobile phone package deals with calls and text message charges. Students match the best plan to one of 3 people whose profiles are shown, detailing their typical use. All prices are in...
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Number Bonds To 10 And 20
In this number bonds to ten and twenty activity, students working in pairs begin to read the instructions to and play the two games 'Card Match' and 'Climb the Money Ladder'.
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The Night Harry Stopped Smoking
For this math and language worksheet, students complete word problems and match vocabulary based on the story The Night Harry Stopped Smoking. Students complete 16 problems total.
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My Test Book: Decimal Addition and Subtraction
In this math skills worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems that require them to add and subtract using decimals. Students may view the correct answers.
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Currencies of the World 2- Test Your Research Skills
In this research skills worksheet, students match the name of the currencies that are listed in a word bank at the top of the page, with the names of the 15 countries that are listed.
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I.O.U.
Students explore adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers in the context of money. In this computation lesson, students use play money and IOU's to model various mathematical algorithms.
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Use or Make a Table
In this make a table worksheet, students read real world questions and write an equation to match the equation. Next, they solve the equation. This one-page worksheet contains two problems.
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My Bank, My Decision!
Students create a three-part bank. In this savings lesson, students utilize the three-part bank to separate their spending needs, wants, and long term goals. Students share some of the money earned for donation. Students discuss the...
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NUMB3RS Activity: Financial Futures
High schoolers discuss the calculated risk example in Numb3rs about a businesswoman from a company that made its money trading in futures. They use a formula given by the teacher to compute the estimated value of an investment after...
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Help the Frogs
In this frogs and numbers worksheet, students match the five numbered frogs to the same number of bugs by drawing a line from one to the other.
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Stars on Clowns' Hats
In this circus counting learning exercise, students solve 5 problems in which stars are drawn on the front of a clown to match the number shown on each of the clowns' hats. The highest number will be 7.
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Balance Adding Integers
In this positive and negative numbers worksheet, middle schoolers complete a balance sheet by writing positive and negative numbers in the space to match transactions. They find the balance of the account. This one-page worksheet...
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Division Word Problems
How can 64 blueberries be equally divided into eight bowls? Mathematicians solve this and more word problems with division scenarios. There are seven total, and scholars choose answers from a list. Because there are an equal number of...
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Homophones Activities 1-5
In this language arts activity, students discover that homophones are words that sound alike. Students complete 5 activities with homophones: matching words to pictures, completing sentences, explaining differences between words and...
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Modeling with a Linear Function
Here is a well-designed resource that provides five yes-or-no questions which model different situations with linear functions. It makes a good pre-test for the beginning of the unit. The purpose is to elicit common misconceptions of...
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Equations and Expressions
Learners demonstrate their knowledge pictorially, concretely, and abstractly in this unit meant to last three hours over three days. Using hands-on activities, manipulatives, real-world applications, and problem solving, learners write...
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Making Cents
Learners play a game in which they create monetary amounts using different coin combinations.