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Place Values-Adding

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students find place value. In this place value lesson, students are shown examples on the board by their teacher. A ten-problem worksheet is included. Problems involve only the hundreds and ten thousands place.
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Counting by 10s, 5s, and 1s

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice counting by 10s, 5s, and 1s in order to prepare for counting and adding the values of coins.
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The Function Box

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners explore arithmetic and numerical patterns. After observing a teacher created function box, students describe a pattern and predict what will "come out" of the function box. They explore patterns such as geometric shapes,...
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Shopping Smarter

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students read a book about money and smart shopping to learn about debt, advertising, and the use of credit cards. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book The Kids' Money Book and discuss economic concepts. Students complete...
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Solving Equations (Multiplication and Division)

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, after explaining in writing the steps they would take to solve 4+x-2=6 as a warm up, solve multiplication/division equations using manipulative's. They generalize a method to problem solving with coins.
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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore saving and investing money.  In this middle school personal finance lesson, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound interest. ...
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Handling Data: Probability, Chase Me game

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners participate in a simulation in which the aim is for the tortoise to catch up with the hare or vice versa. Moves are decided by throwing two dice. Adding together the numbers on the two dice tells you which animal moves one...
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Basic Operations with Decimals

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice skills adding and dividing decimals. They examine the help wanted ads and compute the hourly and weekly wages. They discuss the real life value of understanding the importance of decimals.
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One-Digit Addition and Subtraction No Regrouping (A)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this math worksheet, learners solve 81 problems in which one-digit numbers are added and subtracted. Problems are in a vertical format with addition and subtraction mixed in each row.
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Disaster Strikes

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine the devastation caused by the tsunami of 2005. In this current events lesson, students consider the effects of natural disasters as they research tsunamis and the worldwide response to the December 26, 2005 tsunami....
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Visualization of Rhythms in 4/4

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 1st graders discuss the values of each note by counting the beats accordingly.
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Finding Mass

For Teachers 8th
Student measure mass to discover how pennies have changed in their composition. In this measurement instructional activity, 8th graders investigate through an open-ended problem to discover how the US pennies composition changed in the...
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File Card Bridges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make different variations of file card bridges and predict how much weight it will hold. In this file card bridges lesson plan, students put file cards between books in different ways and predict how many pennies it will hold.
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Ten Pennies

For Teachers K - 6th
Students play logic and strategy games with pennies. In this pennies worksheet, students play one game called 'From counting to arithmetic', and one called 'Counting and mental math'.
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The Function Box

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students look around classroom and identify any patterns they see, describe patterns and explain why they are patterns, use pencil to demonstrate arithmetic patterns by tapping, practice predicting patterns by using Function Box, and...
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Do You Like to Spend or Save?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students, after briefly discussing spending and saving habits, take a poll to see how their peers like to manage money. Then students graph their findings and discuss the survey results.
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What's the Cost?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners consider what things cost 150 years ago and what those costs would be in today's money. They compare costs and services between the 1850s and today to find out if things are cheaper or more expensive today, in inflation-adjusted...
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Balance the Budget

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make their own decisions over how central government should spend the money they get from taxing the public. They discuss where they could get more money from and how does spending and taxation outlined in the budget affect kids.
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Is Radio 1 British enough?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars read the story Radio 1 defends not playing enough UK tunes. Students are then asked: What are the benefits of having a mix of musical cultures in a country?, Do countries lose a sense of identity when other cultures are...
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Our Daily Five

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Not So Snappy 7

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students look for the answers to the word problems that focus upon using the number seven. They develop vocabulary and problem solving skills.
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Safe Drinking Water Foundation

How Water Pollution Is Cleaned Up

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
As a follow-up from the previous lesson, young environmentalists discuss the benefits of water filtration and whether or not it's the best option. Other alternatives including air stripping, bioremediation, and phytoremediation are...
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Using Counting-on Strategy for Purchasing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Intended for learners with autism and developmental disabilities, this lesson uses the strategy of counting-on to enhance independent shopping skills. Learners will practice counting on to the next dollar value in order to purchase items...
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Chapter 10: Aggregate Expenditures (The Multiplier, Net Exports, and Government)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Effectively portraying the multiplier effect and the gaps within recession and inflation periods, these slides would be a good resource for both a beginning and advanced economics class. Clear, easy-to-read graphs and charts take viewers...

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