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Cost Effective Egg Drop
Students create cost effective ways to protect an egg. In this cost conscious lesson plan, students complete an egg drop activity while spending the least amount of money possible.
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A Measure of Happiness
Students share opinions about the factors that contribute to or detract from their happiness. They create survey to determine how people in their community measure happiness, and write reflections on the relationship between money and...
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Pounds and Ounces: It's All About Weight
First graders explore number sense by participating in a measurement estimation activity. In this weight lesson, 1st graders discuss the differences between measurement units, both English and Metric. Students examine a loaf of bread to...
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The Path to Positive
Students demonstrate how to add positive integers. In this computation instructional activity, students read the book Less Than Zero and use a number line and counters to play an addition game using positive integers.
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Estimating Prices
Students practice making reasonable estimates. In this consumer math, students round purchase prices of items to estimate the total cost. Students practice using metal computations to arrive at estimates.
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Mr. Goldman's Good Idea
Shopping carts are a modern convenience that many people take for granted. Make sure your pupils do not fall into that category by completing the activities in this plan. There are ideas included for language arts, social studies, math,...
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Teaching Values of Decimals
Students participate in a number of activities in order to reinforce the study of the place value for decimals. They name place values for ones to thousandths.
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Accounting - Analyzing Transactions to Debit/Credit Parts
High schoolers are introduced to how transactions are analyzed with debits and credits. In groups, they complete a T-chart in which the account increases with credits and decreases with debits. To end the lesson plan, they analyze the...
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Find Somebody Who..1: Icebreaker Game
In this icebreaker activity worksheet, students examine 30 descriptions and find classmates who fit the descriptions. Students should record the names of classmates next to the descriptions they match.
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There's No Accounting for Good Journals
Tenth graders create journals on their spending habits. In this money-management lesson plan, 10th graders create and keep journals of their personal income and expenditures. Students learn to use Excel to create a spreadsheet for their...
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Finding Your Stride Length
Pupils participate in an estimation activity to determine the length of a hallway or to estimate how many people can fit in the school stadium or gym.
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Multiplication of Whole Numbers
In this multiplication worksheet, learners solve 40 problems in which single digit numbers are multiplied. Students practice basic facts as well as use multiplication in real world problems. Some problems on this page involve English...
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Finding Probabilities Using Lists of Outcomes
In this probability worksheet, students solve 5 multi-step questions pertaining to making lists of possible outcomes and calculating probability. This page is intended to be an online activity, but can be completed on paper.
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Numeracy Samples
In these number literacy worksheets, students complete eight different activities that help them learn numbers and use numbers.
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Color Your World
Students calculate the cost of painting a room. In this surface area lesson, students create a scale model from provided dimensions of a bedroom. Groups use area formulas to find square footage, from which materials and labor costs are...
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Sky High Fuel
In this fuel price worksheet, students examine a chart that shows fuel prices between 2001 and 2005. They compute the answers to 3 word problems in which they work with finding average. They complete an extension activity in which they...
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Solving Subtraction Equations: Quiz
In this subtraction worksheet, students solve a total 14 problems, solving subtraction equations; answers are available on page 2. A reference web site is available for additional activities.
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Decimal Equations Quiz
In this decimal equations worksheet, students complete a total of 16 problems. Answers are included on page 2, a reference web site is given for additional activities.
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4-Digit Problem Solving: Add and Subtract
In this problem solving worksheet, students solve a total of 7 equations, drawing models and using algorithm. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Investing
Students collect data on investments and draw conclusions. In this algebra lesson, students analyze exponential graphs as they relate to money. They discuss the cause of an account balance being high or low.
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Houses and Cars and Loans
Students create a spreadsheet to track their spending. In this algebra lesson plan, students use loan formulas to calculate the payback amount plus interest on a loan. They calculate how much money they would need to buy a car and house.
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A Trip to Colonial Virginia
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. In this budgeting lesson, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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Halloween Problem Solver
Looking for a way to challenge young trick-or-treaters? Fifth and sixth graders solve hard, harder, and hardest word problems about Halloween.
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Real Life Situations
Pupils investigate different equations and think critically how they could represent a real-life situation. They should write a word problem to coincide with the given equations. The lesson requires students to use critical thinking skills.