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Economic Causes of the March on Washington

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Money can't buy happiness, but it can put food on the table and pay the bills. The first of a five-lesson unit teaches pupils about the unemployment rate in 1963 and its relationship with the March on Washington. They learn how to create...
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The Price is Right, So Let's Make Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars estimate, calculate, and count back the amount of change needed from purchases made during small group activities.
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Trading Faces

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use addition to determine values of coin combinations. They play a game where they come up with possible trades: two nickels for a dime and complete a tally worksheet. There are other lessons in this unit.
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Money Circulation: A Story of Trade and Commerce

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are introduced to the meaning, symbolism, and value of the quarter. They determine the percentage of total monetary value held in quarters and graph the results. Students infer about the U.S. Mint's distrubution of...
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Coin Recognition and Values

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students name coins and their values, and find the total value when they add coins together. In this coins lesson plan, students also play a game called "Show me the money!".
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$$Adding Up All Your Loot!$$

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this adding money amounts worksheet, students add four-digit dollars and cents problems with regrouping. Students solve 15 problems.
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Basic Budgeting

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create a personal budget.  In this creating a personal budget lesson, students create a list of 3 necessary things they need to survive.  Students rank these things in order of importance and determine their cost.  Students...
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Scoring a Financial Education

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of money management. In this money management lesson, students read an article about students taking a finance course in high school and college. Students discuss the importance of money management. Students...
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In the Bag!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils calculate how many quarters are in a $1,000 bag (after learning the dollar value of filled coin bags). They explain their problem-solving strategy using pictures, numbers, equations, and/or words.
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Quarter Combos

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars play a review game that allows them to practice identifying coins and their values and create coin combinations that equal 25 cents.
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Lemonade Business Stock Market Intro

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students role play as business owners in order to learn about how certain aspects of business works. In this 3rd - 6th grade lesson plan, students experience creating and running their own business, including earning profits and...
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Recession Lesson: The Silver Lining of the Economic Downturn

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss money and interest.  For this discussing money and interest lesson, students discuss positives of an economic recession.  Students discuss how savings rates have increased over time and the general attitude towards...
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How much does soap cost?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice the division concept.  In this dividing lesson, 3rd graders watch a video that gives a simple division word problem. Students work collaboratively to find the solution.
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Making Cents of Division

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use pennies as manipulatives to solve simple division problems. They create division number sentences to correspond with each exercise. This is a good, hands-on way to teach the concept of division.
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Cell Phone Plans

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students relate the use of a cell phone to math. In this algebra lesson, students collect data on the usage of their phones and plot it. They analyze the graph and make predictions based on the rate per minute.
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What Is Money?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars discuss the difference between earned and unearned income. They use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and/or percents, mixed numbers) to solve real-world math...
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Managing Your Money

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discuss different money management options in a variety of situations. They identify moments to share, spend and save money.
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Exchanging Money in the Dominican Republic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of the international exchange rate. They explore a website, identify the value of the Dominican peso, calculate the value of bills and coins in Dominican pesos and U.S. dollars, and complete various worksheets.
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An American Spy with Money To Spend

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use their imagination, math, reading, computer, geography, and social studies skills in this unique, innovative, and fun lesson where students pretend to be international spies!
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Are You Money Smart?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners figure out and discuss the irony of this coin-centric poem. They also practice persuasive letter writing, and identify and count coin/money values.
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Tobacco Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how much money they can save by not smoking.
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Spending Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders add and subtract amounts of money.
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Currency Exchange Rates

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students, in groups, choose three countries from which to investigate exchange rates versus the US dollar. Using Internet research they follow daily exchange rates and compute the percentage change. They compile data and prepare and...
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All Those Advertising Dollars!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students calculate percent increases (or percent decreases) for the top 25 companies in terms of advertising dollars spent during a year.

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