Students study the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, one each day for four days, using a magnifying glass to identify the similarities. Then students discuss differences and value and learn a 'rap' to memorize values.

Young scholars assess what they value and participate in a class auction. In this financial values lesson, students complete a budget activity and use play money to participate in an auction. Young scholars complete a related worksheet...

Seventh graders examine the Great Depression and federal relief programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps. Focusing on Texas, they assess the effects on poor farmers and discuss what they would do for a living had they lived in...

Review money with this motivating lesson. Using a simple game, learners practice adding up coins to total $.25. This lesson comes with worksheets that could be used to cement students' knowledge of this topic.

Your friend Phil wants to know if he should play the lottery. Have your class use the given data to compute the expected value and explain to Phil what he should do and why. This handout is ideal for a quick assessment of skill and...

Understanding government spending is difficult. The number of variables can be enormous. In the corresponding resource, number crunchers are given one equation related to government spending with a number of variables. Your class is...

Future car owners use geometric sums to calculate payments for a car loan in the 31st installment of a 35-part module. These same concepts provide the basis for calculating annuity payments.

Do you have financial goals? How will you make them happen? Help your pupils answer these questions through this interactive project. They create goals and a plan for reaching them as one of many high school algebra projects.

Mixture problems are a classic in first-year algebra. Unfortunately, many learners approach them in a formulaic fashion and don't truly understand the meaning of the algebraic expressions they are using. Here, the questions are not the...

Watch the damage from a forest fire in this interactive simulation activity that challenges learners to estimate the burn area using different approaches. Learners are given a worksheet to track the different burn patterns and practice...

Students listen to story about money or coins, and play game to help them solidify their understanding of money. Students focus specifically on coin value and calculating amounts of money up to fifty cents or above, depending on level.

Students determine that history is a field of study that can help them understand themselves and the people around them. By reading sources by and about people with many of the same interests and concerns that they have and learning to...

Students review economic goals and evaluate progress in achieving those goals. They focus on equity, efficiency, economic freedom and growth. They provide and example of a production decision for the economy as a whole.

Students use play coins to solve problems. They imagine that someone handed them two coins. One is a quater and one is a dime. Students are asked by feeling the shapes of the coins, how could they tell which one was the quater? They are...

Students identify/recognize types of currency in the United States. In addition, they view the symbols associated with money and practice reading prices (dollar/cent signs, decimal point, etc.).

Students explore counting coins. In this money counting instructional activity, students are given an assigned number of coins and calculate the least amount of coins that could be used to equal the same value. Students participate in...

What do you think sheep might be able to barter when they don't have quite enough to buy a gift? Your pupils can find out this and much more during this lesson plan about Sheep in a Shop, spending, saving, and bartering.

Benjamin Franklin's famous aphorisms are a perfect time capsule of colonist values in the mid-18th century, as well as a clever reminder of the way life still works today. Middle and high schoolers select one aphorism to interpret...

Students explore the concept of place value. They differentiate between digits and their values as it related to addition and subtraction. Through the use of technology and manipulatives students investigate the place value of digits by...

In this financial terms activity, students draw a line from the financial terms on the left to their matching meaning on the right. There are 15 terms and definitions to match up.

In this lesson students investigate what it would cost to furnish one room of their choice by shopping on the Internet. Both Australian and American dollars are to be given for each item to demonstrate the difference between two...

This math lesson focuses on coins - specifically the nickel. Students use plastic nickles in order to gain practice counting by fives, and adding amounts of cents. Students complete a worksheet where they tally up different amounts of...

First graders use a calculator to total money quantities. They use plastic coins to represent the cost of an entire purchase. Students model specific dollar amounts and how to make change.

Students study the meaning, symbolism, and value of U.S. coins, especially the quarter. Theyresearch why in 1965 the U.S. Mint decided to change the metal composition of the quarter to copper coated with nickel. In addition, they perform...