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Budgeting 101

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils 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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Three for the Money: The Degree/Diameter Problem

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils explore the concept of vertex-edge graphs.  In this vertex-edge graphs lesson, students try to construct a graph with a given diameter, number of vertices, size, and planarity.  Pupils construct various vertex-edge...
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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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Brain Booster

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money worksheet, learners read the chart listing the food items and their prices. Students then solve the two questions using the chart and counting the money to find the answers.
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Not Everything Is More Expensive

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of using different types of presentations to help solve mathematical problems. They research the use of illustrations to help understand data and its interpretation in a graphing format. Students also...
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What's the Chance?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students conduct probability experiments with dice and coins. They watch a video for a variety of situations where calculating the probability is complicated by total number of possibilities. They solve problems presented in the video.
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Shopping for Skills

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders spend varying amounts of money and shop without over spending. They complete a worksheet based on grocery store flyer ads and the amount of money they are budgeted. They create their own questions about the grocery flyer...
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Logic

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners solve problems using reasoning techniques, identify the validity or non-validity of problems and use deductive reasoning for problem resolution.
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2 X 2 Linear Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students solve 2 X 2 systems graphically and algebraically. They investigate parallel systems. They solve application problems using 2 X 2 systems.
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Introductory Algebra Chapter 3 Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the problems while interpreting the line, bar, and circle graphs. The examples are given to help in the context of each objective.
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A McTrip Back In Time

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students pretend they are time-travellers and travel back to 1954 to a McDonald's Restaurant to see how prices have changed. They need to add and subtract money with regrouping.
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Halloween

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars solve Halloween word problems to work on their math skills. In this Halloween lesson plans, students solve problems involving candy, costumes, money, kids, and more.
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The Three Cold Kittens

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students solve a math word problem involving repeated addition. They identify the important information in the problem, brainstorm ways to solve the problem, and solve the problem and discuss the solution as a class.
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Credit: Taking an Interest in Credit

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine how credit works but looking at how credit cards and interest rates work. They use percentages to solve problems using credit card interest rates while completing a worksheets.
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All I Want For Christmas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create wish lists from catalogues and sales ads based on a given budget. They add, subtract, estimate, and budget their given amount of money so they don't go over budget.
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Graphing Systems of Equations - Word Problemsr

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils solve word problems which involve graphing systems of equations. After discussing methods of solving word problems, the teacher demonstrates how to solve problems which involve graphing. They work together, at their desks, and...
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Computing Costs

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders calculate the out-of-pocket money needed to purchase a discounted item taxed at a certain percentage of sales tax.
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Finding Value in the Renaissance

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars explore art during the Renaissance period through the use of math. They solve word problems based upon historic documents of Renaissance Italy which contain real life situations, currencies and formulas. Students...
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Choosing a Summer Job

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
What did you do over your summer vacation. Young wage earners must compare summer job options, and determine when each job earn the same amount and what that amount be. This be done by creating, graphing, and solving systems of...
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Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students develop their own strategies to solve basic addition and subtraction facts. In this addition and subtraction lesson plan, students use strategies they already know and new ones to solve problems.
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Getting Percentible

For Teachers 4th
This unit explores the connections between percentages, decimals, and fractions. It focuses on strategies for solving problems involving percentages and applies these strategies to real life contexts.
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Estimate a Dinner Plate

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students work with a partner to solve the real-world problem of planning a favorite meal given a specific budget. They review and practice estimation strategies to determine the reasonableness of calculations in a given situation.
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Subtracting Monkeys

For Teachers K
Students sing a song that counts backwards from five to one and illustrate the countdown with puppets. They write the correct subtraction problem for each verse of the song.
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Mr. Goldman's Good Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Shopping carts are a modern convenience that many people take for granted. Make sure your pupils do not fall into that category by completing the activities in this plan. There are ideas included for language arts, social studies, math,...