Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Getting Paid for Our Work
Second graders see how money is used to buy and sell items. They will participate in an activity to see how people get money.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Go Shopping!
This lesson will give learners practice with adding and subtracting money using a calculator. It will provide them an opportunity to determine savings using a store coupon, and determine the change they should recieve when making...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: 3 Digit Numbers and Fractions
In this interactive site, students practice various skills including finding the total, odd and even numbers, making change, and fractions by helping a farmer pick and sell his oranges and olives.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Dolphin Feed
Feed the dolphin selecting the coins that make the given amount of change.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 4.md Margie Buys Apples
This task gives students an opportunity to work with familiar fractions and decimals in a context involving money. Aligns with 4.MD.A.2.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Work, Earnings and Economics: Using Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
In reading and discussing Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, young scholars examine basic economic concepts and explore the growth of labor unions and the role of government in a market economy.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Dolphin Feed
Practice your skills at counting money in this online game where you try to make the correct change.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Spare a Watt, Save a Lot
In this science fair project, you will investigate the different uses of electricity in your home. By identifying appliances, and determining how much energy they use, as well as which are phantom loaders, you can determine if there are...