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What Coins Do They Have?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students solve money puzzle problems while completing a coin puzzle worksheet. They answer what coins might make up the combinations.
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Worksheet
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Money Math Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word problem worksheet, students complete a total of 6 money word problems; answers are available on page 2. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Lesson Plan
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Money Matters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences.  In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money.  Students...
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Unit Plan
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Pocket Money And Pester Power

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students participate in a number of activities to examine how young people think about, use and make money. They determine what young people prefer to spend money on, if there are gender differences and how they compare to students in...
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The ABCs of Coins

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study alphabet books to see the many creative ways these books can be put together. After picking a format, the class creates an alphabet book about coins.
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Money Matters

For Teachers K
Students play a game called Money Matters using cut out representatives of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
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Quarter Combos

For Teachers 2nd
Review money with this motivating lesson. Using a simple game, learners practice adding up coins to total $.25. This lesson comes with worksheets that could be used to cement students' knowledge of this topic.
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Lesson Plan
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Comparison Shopping & Buying Supplies

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare prices to determine the best buy. They earn money, by correctly completing math problems. Earnings are used to purchase items from a store using exact change.
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Classroom Supplies

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Challenge young mathematicians to buy classroom supplies by staying within the means of a $1,000 budget. The mathematical activity provides learners with the opportunity to decide what items from the supply list would benefit a class of...
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Activity
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Visiting the Arcade

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders take a trip to the arcade in an activity that engages them in problem solving with money. Composed of three word problems, youngsters are instructed to determine various combinations to represent a given value by using...
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Scarcity and Choice

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
After reading the book A Bargain for Frances, young economists discuss how money is exchanged for goods or services. They demonstrate effective financial decision-making by listing ways to save money for a product they would like to buy.
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Lesson Plan
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Integrating the Nintendo Wii in Adaptive Physical Education

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Bring gaming into the classroom as part of a physical education activity. Learners with disabilities participate in various physical activities using the Nintendo Wii. They use the video game system not only to play different sports, but...
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Lesson Plan
Federal Reserve Bank

Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
There are so many ways to use a potato: bake it, fry it, or barter it. The lesson explains the concepts of bartering, money, and goods and services with a story that takes place during the Great Depression. Academics complete group...
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Learning
Royal Baloo

Star Wars K-2nd Math Pack

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Included in a Star Wars themed packet, young padawans enhance mathematical skills such as graphing, computing using basic operations, counting numbers and money, telling time, and measuring. Scholars play a game of sudoku, read number...
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Curriculum Corner

Splashes of Spring Math Centers

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Spring into math practice with a set of resources that taps into a variety of math practice. Skills include matching expressions to their definitions, a place value sorting activity, three multiplication and division games, several...
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Elementary AMC

Earth Day Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Take some time this Earth Day to nourish the growth of your young mathematicians with this series of task cards. Whether it's the four basic operations, place value, money, or elapsed time, these conservation-themed problems will engage...
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Money Match

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review coin identification and play a game in which they must match a coin to its value.
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Worksheet
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Systems - Money Problems

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this systems of equations worksheet, students solve 9 word problems about money.  Students determine the number of nickels and dimes, quarters and half-dollars, and profit from ticket sales by writing a system of equations and solving.
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PPT
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Millionaire Game: Life Since 1930 Britain

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Life in the UK changed a lot during and after WWII. Review major events, pop icons, and life during wartime with a game. Kids play a Millionaire-style game to test what they know about rationing, blackouts, The Beatles, and British...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Discrete Random Variables: Roll the Dice!

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
And the winner is ... not always who it appears to be. An interactive gives the directions for a dice game that on the surface gives one player an advantage over the other. Pupils look closer at the possible outcomes and find the...
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Unit Plan
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

Colonial Tobacco Economy

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Tobacco as money? Middle schoolers investigate how eighteenth-century Virginia farmers used tobacco as a cash crop to buy tools, livestock, and household goods. They also examine the connection between tobacco production and the slave...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Your Budget Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do Whoosh and Jet Stream have in common? They are both characters in a fantastic game designed to help students identify various positive and negative spending behaviors. Through an engaging activity, worksheets, and discussion,...
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Lesson Plan
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Using Credit and Spending Money Wisely

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss how to spend money wisely. In this consumer math lesson plan, students read the book, Mr. Popper's Penguins and discuss how much it costs to take care of a pet. Students complete a worksheet to calculate the total cost...
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Worksheet
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Find Somebody Who... 2-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
In this icebreaker game, students get to know their classmates by finding people who fit each of the 30 descriptions on the page and writing their names in the blanks.

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