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Final Analysis

For Students 7th - 9th
In this consumer mathematics activity, learners calculate the total amount of money they earned during a project given. Then they transfer the expenses from each month to find their totals. Students also calculate to find their final...
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The Hundred Penny Box

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students compare how people save money in financial institutions, after reading the story, The Hundred Penny Box. They analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding.
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Finding Discount and Sale Price

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders solve real-life problems involving sales tax, discount, and simple interest. They find the amount of discount. In groups, 7th graders examine a sales advertisement. Given a budget, they choose purchases, and figure the...
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Bingo Brown and the Language of Love

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study credit and interest in a novel and consumer math activity. In this credit instructional activity, students read the book Bingo Brown and the Language of Love. Students discuss the book and the ideas of credit, interest,...
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Estimating Profit from a Job

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a budget. In this estimation and rounding lesson, students create a budget for a painting job. They must make sure that they come out with a profit.
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Simple Strategies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a fabulous lesson plan on problem solving strategies for your charges. In it, learners are presented with many excellent techniques they can use when faced with a multi-step math word problem. Some terrific blackline masters are...
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Buying a Home: Terms of a Mortgage

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Buying a home, dealing with a lender, securing a mortgage; these are daunting tasks for many adults. Why not teach middle schoolers about this area of adulthood so they are better-prepared to make the leap into home ownership when they...
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Egg-cellent Landing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The classic egg-drop experiment gets a new bounce with an activity that asks pairs to design a lander similar to one used to land a rover on Mars within a fixed budget. The activity provides a great introduction to the idea of terminal...
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"Deals on Wheels!" Car Loan Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Help your class members learn how to use their income wisely with a comprehensive lesson plan on calculating monthly car payments. Using basic math skills and online calculators, your learners will determine the total amount to be...
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Protecting Our City with Levees

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Teams use the design process to design, build, and test a model levee to protect the town from a wall of water. A handout provides a price list for the materials learners can use to build their levee within a budget.
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Plan A Meal For A Family Of Four

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use critical thinking skills in order to plan a meal for a family of four. They integrate the knowledge of the Food Pyramid in order to make the meal acceptable. Students use a budget and then create a list for shopping...
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Fall Clothing Sale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students shop for clothing. In this fall clothing sale lesson, students examine circulars for items to purchase within their budget.  
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Let's Go Shopping

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders calculate sales tax and apply discounts regarding a set budget. They create a shopping list, apply tax and discounts, complete a worksheet, and calculate their total cost to equal as close to $1000.00 as they can without...
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On Your Own

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research a certain type of job. They write the details of finding the job and describe the job duties. Students also describe a living arrangement and all the costs associated with it. Then they create a physical budget...
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Count Your Credit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students begin the lesson by discussing credit cards, interest rates and budgets. With a partner, they complete a webquest in which they can determine the minimum payment on different amounts and interest rates on their make-believe...
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Prom Date

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the internet to research the cost of going to the school prom. As a class, they brainstorm about the things needed in order to go to the dance and use advertisements to make a budget. After all of the data is collected,...
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Comparison Shopping

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars practice developing budgets. In this financial awareness lesson, students read The Monster Money Book and list ways the characters saved money in the story. Young scholars plan a budget and demonstrate how to look for...
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Expensive Choices

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.
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Party Time

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students design a budget to plan for a class party. In this problem solving lesson plan, students devise a budget with a limit of fifty dollars for a class party. Students discuss and estimate the amount of money needed for food and...
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Comparison Food Shopping: Buying Groceries for Two People for One Week

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders investigate how to develop a simple food budget for two using newpaper ads, the basic four food groups, and calorie counts.
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It's Your Future

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about productive resources along with their requirements, supply and demand, savings, investments and interest rates. In this supply and demand instructional activity, students create a career plan and personal budget of...
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Check It Out

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Pupils discuss the many processes involved with personal banking. They create their own budget based on their career choices. They also practice balancing a checkbook.
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Money & Work

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explain basic information concerning financial investments. They identify consumer rights and responsibilities and effective practices for purchasing consumer goods, services, housing and insurance. They list steps in...
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Building Bridges

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars use glue, toothpicks, cardboard, marshmallows and more to build a structure. In this building lesson plan, students budget money to get their materials and make their building in teams.

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