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Shopping for Savings
Fourth graders calculate savings and identify the best value items from a list of products. They rotate through five studying stations, completing various math activities involving calculators and solving problems related to shopping...
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What's on Sale?
Young scholars explore sale items. In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper. Young scholars identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts. ...
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Flipping Coins: Density as a Characteristic Property
Young scholars explore linear functions in a crime solving context. They collect and analyze data using linear equations, then interpret the slope and intercepts from a linear model.
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Wacky Water World: Student Worksheet
In this math worksheet, students will work alone or in pairs to determine which theme park ticket package is a better deal. Students will use data provided in the worksheet and a graphing calculator to make the decision.
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The Christmas Shoppe: Money Activity
For this Christmas money activity worksheet, students use a chart of Christmas Shoppe Sales to answer 4 questions involving estimating, calculating, finding mean and sales amounts.
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The Christmas Shop: Money Activity
In this Christmas money learning exercise, students use a chart of Christmas Shoppe sales for a week to answer a set of 4 questions. Answers are included.
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Mental Math and Money Problems
In this European money worksheet, students add the total cost of items using European money. Students complete 12 problems total.
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Interest Rates
Use a KWL chart and discussion to explore the concept behind loans with interest based on percentage rates. Learners examine different types of interest, the history of interest loans and calculate the costs of a loan over a ten-year...
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Compounding with a 5% Interest Rate
The balance in an account continuously compounding interest is the context of this engaging task. Your young accountants will investigate the ending balance in an account as they compound the interest more and more. Learners write the...
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Discount and Sales Price
One of the most practical ways to teach about percentages is to use the real-life example of "sale" or "discount" pricing. This presentation poses many of these type of problems for young mathematicians who are trying to master the...
Noyce Foundation
Cat Food
Determine the right mix of cans of cat food. The resource consists of an assessment task to determine the cost to feed two cats for a specific number of days and requires scholars to interpret remainders within a context....
Federal Reserve Bank
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.
PwC Financial Literacy
Saving and Investing: Investing for the Future
A fine lesson 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." They...
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Currency Exchange and the Gang of Fifteen
Students demonstrate the ability to comprehend and calculate currency exchange rates.
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Money Matters
Students count, record, and calculate money. They save, as well as to explain the value of jobs and working hard.
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Making Change with Dollars anc Cents
Third graders increase their knowledge of how to make change with dollars and cents by correctly identifying coins along with their values and then using coins to make an assigned amount which will be written on envelopes. They then...
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Mental Math and Money Problems
In this cost worksheet, students add the total cost of buying items using British money. Students complete 12 problems on this worksheet.
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Let's Try Various Calculations
Students explore math facts. In this calculation and math facts lesson, students play a board game in which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math facts are practiced. A copy of the game is included.
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Money
Students complete online activities to identify coins and their given values. In this coin values lesson, students identify pictures of various coins and write their values. Students may then complete other activities based on a varying...
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Making Change
Second graders explore how to incorporate a new type of technology, the cash register and/or a calculator, as a motivational tool for solving real life problems. They practice estimating money and counting back change from $20.00.
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How do You Stack Up? Revisited
Young scholars estimate the thickness of coins. In this stack up lesson, students stack pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They calculate and record the thickness of each coin. Young scholars stack coins and estimate the height of...
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Making Change
Learners investigate how to make change when purchasing items. In this making change instructional activity, students examine a scenario to calculate the correct change. Learners play Bingo based on information and...
Council for Economic Education
One is Silver and the Other's Gold
Learners investigate the money supply and how it can affect the value of money. They examine how the changing money supply can affect prices.
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Battle of "The Cents"
Students explore money. In this counting money instructional activity, students play a card game using the rules of "War." Students turn over cards, determine the money value represented, and the student with the highest value keeps the...