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Menu Math
Getting a meal, side dish, drink, and dessert can be delicious—but it can be expensive too! Practice addition and subtraction with money in a lesson that focuses on a sample menu, complete with task cards and word problems.
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"In God We Trust": The Camden Man Who Put the Missing Motto on the Dollar Bill
Here is a fascintating lesson which relates how the motto "In God We Trust" came to appear on all US currency. It turns out that a man from Arkansas came up with the idea and petioned his congressman and President Eisenhower himself to...
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Mega-Fun Fractions
Creative and fun lessons help kids get some hands-on experience with fractions. The resource includes 50 innovative ways to teach kids about equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, using fractions in money math and...
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Menu Word Problems Worksheet #3
For this adding and subtracting monetary amounts worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 10 word problems.
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Subtract Money Amounts
In this subtracting money amounts worksheet, students subtract the money amounts within the word problems. Students solve six word problems.
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Money Makes the World Go Around
Students convert currency from around the world. In this math lesson, students solve exchange rate problems using Google Earth. They complete a worksheet during the simulation.
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Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Students practice adding and subtracting numbers with decimals. For this decimals lesson plan, students use grid paper and money to learn how to add and subtract decimals.
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Adding Two- and Three-Digit Numbers
For this adding two- and three-digit numbers worksheet, students, with a partner, problem solve and calculate the answers to eight mathematical word problems and equations.
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Verbs - Adding -ed Endings
In this grammar and spelling worksheet, students read the proper ways to add -ed endings to verbs. They write out 7 sentences filling in the missing verb and adding the correct ending.
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Money Counting Worksheet
In this counting coins worksheet, students study the pictures of the coins on the left and the amounts of money on the right. Students draw a line to match the coins with the correct amount of money in the 4 examples.
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Money Counting Worksheet
In this counting coins instructional activity, students look at the pictures of the coins on the left and the amounts of money on the right. Students draw a line to match each coin with its numerical equivalent in 4 examples.
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Money Counting Worksheet
In this counting coins worksheet, students study the pictures of the coins on the left and the amounts of money on the right. Students draw a line to match the coins with their numerical equivalent in the 4 examples.
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Money Counting Worksheet
In this counting money worksheet, students study the 3 groups of coins on the left and total their amount. Students do the same for the 3 groups of coins on the right and then draw a line connecting the groups on the left and right whose...
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Money Counting Worksheet
In this coin identification learning exercise, students look at the 3 groups of coins on the left and 3 on the right. Students determine the monetary amount of each group and draw a line connecting the groups whose totals match.
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A Dollar for Penny
Students demonstrate different ways to make a dollar. For this consumer math lesson, students read the book A Dollar for Penny and identify the value of each coin. Students determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.
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Four Decimal, Fraction, and Percent Activities
In this fraction learning exercise, students solve problems presented in four different activities. The activities cover percentages, fractions, decimals, currency exchange, and value added tax. A card "game" is one of the activities. ...
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Spending Plans
Students explore the concept of dividing their money into categories, namely "save," "spend," and "share." They engage in activities that help them explain that money is limited in quantity and must be divided for different purposes.
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Labor, Choice, and Sales Tax
Students consider the idea of earning and spending money. In this money management lesson plan, students discuss the concept of saving and spending money through the reading of a story and by completing several activities that involve...
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Problem Solving Strategies
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, students solve and complete 9 different word problems that include money and measurement. First, they list the sub-problems for each problem, solve the sub-problems and solve the problem....
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Math Word Problems
In this problem solving worksheet, students solve six word problems by adding or subtracting money amounts. This is a multiple choice worksheet.
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The Cube and Coin Challenges
Second graders participate in several games based on colored cubes and coins. They try to figure out the relative rate at which things happen and assess the concept of playing a fair game with their peers. Each student compare familiar...
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Money and Banking
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics activity, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Adding US Coins
In this counting coins instructional activity, students study the pictures of the coins and then add the coins. Students write the totals on the lines.
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Where Does All the Money Go?
Students explore the concept of uses for money. In this uses for money lesson, students discuss ways in which money can be utilized such as spending, saving, investing, donating, etc. Students discuss the differences between needs and...