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The Three Cold Kittens

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students solve a math word problem involving repeated addition. They identify the important information in the problem, brainstorm ways to solve the problem, and solve the problem and discuss the solution as a class.
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Budget Finances

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars role play the role of a recent graduate of high school living on their own. Using play money, they are given one month's salary and they discover they own their own house or apartment and owe money on a car loan. They...
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Sentence Match

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the concept of equivalency. In this math lesson, 5th graders write their own word problems and pair them to appropriate algebraic number sentences.
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Walk-a-thon

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders solve word problems. In this math lesson, 5th graders read the word problem and determine what is being asked. Students solve the problem and explain how they reached their solution.
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Away we Go

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students work in groups to calculate the costs of a trip to Six Flags amusement park. In this domain and range lesson, students calculate the least and greatest amounts of money needed for tickets, food, souvenirs, and airplane tickets.
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Making Good Investments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare different aspects of investing money from traditional savings accounts to money market accounts. They research investment accounts at local banks and compare them.
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Not Everything is More Expensive

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore percent increases and decreases. They calculate the percent increase and decrease. Students use math to solve problems and communicate. They apply the given formula for percent increase/decrease.
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Algebra 2 - Linear Programming

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Young scholars read real world problems, determine the variables, and set up the function using algebraic statements. After entering data into the graphing calculator, they display information in the form of graphs and scatter plots. ...
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Investing

For Teachers 8th - 10th
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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Out to Lunch

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a menu. In this math lesson, 6th graders use mean, median and mode to determine the prices for the typical cost of an appetizer, entree, kid's meal, drinks and dessert. Students write a number sentence to show how...
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Pocket Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover that the mathematics behind this question is a comparison of the rate at which adding a fixed number increases the total compared to continual doubling of a number. In fact no matter what whole numbers you start with,...
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Tiling Tessellations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars explore tessellations. In this shapes and geometry lesson, students describe the attributes of many of the shapes displayed on an Elmo. Young scholars create examples of tessellations using pattern blocks.
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Is Bigger Always Better?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore rational numbers with the young mathematicians in your class. They will investigate decimals, fractions, and percents before ordering and comparing rational numbers. This multi-day unit includes differentiation activities and...
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Sky High

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
How are skyscrapers built? What does it take to make a structurally sound building? How can one work within a budget to complete a building project? These guiding questions will be investigated and answered within a hands-on lesson....
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Pardon me. Do You Have exChange for a Dollar?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars are familiar with United States currency-dollar and cents. They are asked to compare it with currency of another country. Students explore currencies of various countries using the Internet, video, and hands-on...
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Budgeting 101

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify various sources of income and discern between needs and wants as they also learn to create a personal budget.  In this personal budget lesson, student understand financial scenarios as they relate to different ways...
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Three for the Money: The Degree/Diameter Problem

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of vertex-edge graphs.  In this vertex-edge graphs instructional activity, students try to construct a graph with a given diameter, number of vertices, size, and planarity.  Students construct various...
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Waste Audit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of mental math. They perform calculations as following: recognizing a half, three quarters, and tenths. Students are also challenged to extend skills to making calculation...
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Brain Booster

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money worksheet, students read the chart listing the food items and their prices. Students then solve the two questions using the chart and counting the money to find the answers.
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Not Everything Is More Expensive

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of using different types of presentations to help solve mathematical problems. They research the use of illustrations to help understand data and its interpretation in a graphing format. Students also...
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What's the Chance?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students conduct probability experiments with dice and coins. They watch a video for a variety of situations where calculating the probability is complicated by total number of possibilities. They solve problems presented in the video.
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Shopping for Skills

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders spend varying amounts of money and shop without over spending. They complete a worksheet based on grocery store flyer ads and the amount of money they are budgeted. They create their own questions about the grocery flyer...
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2 X 2 Linear Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars solve 2 X 2 systems graphically and algebraically. They investigate parallel systems. They solve application problems using 2 X 2 systems.
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Introductory Algebra Chapter 3 Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the problems while interpreting the line, bar, and circle graphs. The examples are given to help in the context of each objective.