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Past and Present

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers compare fossilized specimens to contemporary specimens. They use a computer and a Proscope Digital USB Microscope to collect and compare images of ferns, sand dollars and sow bugs to those of similar fossilized samples.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Balance of Payments (BOP)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Have you ever checked your clothes to see how many nations created them? Pupils take a deeper look at international trade and the balance of payments nations have with one another. They use calculations, simulations, and primary sources...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Real-life Problems, Working with Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Put your learners' decimal skills to the test with these five word problems. With space for students to write their work, the word problems contain addition and multiplication problems with money and measurement units. Use this resource...
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Lesson Plan
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Home Living / Daily Living: Shopping List 2

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
I've done this exercise with my special needs learners more times than I can count. They practice getting ready to shop at the grocery store by identifying items on their shopping list. They match grocery items to the proper department...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Paying the Rent

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learning how a bank account works is a useful tool. The exercise in the resource is to deduct rent from a checking account and create an equation from a description. Participants then graph the balance of the bank account versus months...
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Worksheet
LearnEnglishFeelGood.com

Which Word - Many or Much?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Reinforce the concept of countable and uncountable nouns with a grammar worksheet that looks closely at the the use of how much or how many.
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Activity
101 Questions

The Incredible Shrinking Dollar

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Make money disappear! Young scholars watch as a copier shrinks a dollar bill to 75 percent of its size. Learners are left to determine the size of the dollar bill after nine passes through the copier.
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Handout
Read Write Think

Persuasive Techniques in Advertising

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Ever wonder if that miracle product in the commercial is really a miracle? Chances are, the only miraculous part is how many people the advertisers are able to convince to buy it! Class members look over short descriptions of techniques...
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Curated OER

Pennies

For Teachers K
Students identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, and count groups of pennies up to ten. They identify the coins using coin manipulatives, count the pennies on a worksheet, and draw a picture on a two-cent stamp. Students then...
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Curated OER

Shopping

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students do a shopping simulation in order to have a chance to apply their math skills in a real life fashion. They decide how much money they have, what they want to buy, if they have enough money and how much change they should get back.
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Curated OER

Play For Pay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice various skills with manipulatives, such as counting correct money amounts to pay for manipulatives.
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Curated OER

Coin-Shaped Books

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars review United States coins throughout history, and create shape books for their favorite coins. Each book contains text and illustrations created by Students.
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Curated OER

Piggy Pockets

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders determine when estimates and exact totals are appropriate in dealing with money. They simulate keeping a checking account over a period of time and keep a checkbook ledger to record deposits and expenses.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Pennies, Nickels, and Quarters

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this coin counting instructional activity, students draw the amount of money for each problem and use the specific amount of coins given. Students use pennies, nickels, and quarters to solve the 5 problems.
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Activity
Curated OER

Pots of Gold

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students participate in a counting activity related to St. Patrick's day.  In this counting exercise students match the number of beans or coins to a numbered shamrock. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pocket Change

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore algebraic relationships using the coins in their "pocket." Interactive games that demonstrate the use of estimation in algebraic problem solving help them build a framework for understanding word problems in a way that...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Problems With Arithmetic

For Students 4th - 5th
In this money word problems worksheet, students solve 10 problems in which money is added and subtracted. Note: This is English pounds and pence.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Pennies, Nickels, and Quarters

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this coin counting worksheet, students identify the coins of pennies, quarters, and nickels and count the total amount of money for 5 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

E3 Practice Assessment - Pets

For Students 3rd
In this assessment learning exercise, 3rd graders complete eight pages of math assessment. Students solve problems related to money and a bar graph. Students solve word problems involving rounding and computation.
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Curated OER

A Penny for Your Thoughts

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students collect pennies to donate to Kiwanis International for their international effort to buy salt for children's bone development. They calculate the amount of money donated, calculate how many children will receive salt, and write...
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Curated OER

Flip a Coin

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are introduced to the concept of probability. In groups, they make a prediction about how many times a coin might show heads or tails when flipped. They carry out the experiment and record their results to compare it to their...
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Taxi Fare

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss what they know about taxis and how they charge. They read the problem and work in pairs focusing their thinking on the repeating pattern of twos. They then share their solutions and conclude with some class practice...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fifty Toes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students guess the subject of the given problem by reasoning. Then they discuss the ways that the problem could be solved by keeping track of their counting in 10s and showing their work.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Match the Squirrels

For Students Pre-K - K
In this counting to 5 worksheet, students examine a picture of 5 squirrels in the forest with numbers by each animal. Students cut out the acorns and paste the correct number to match.

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