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Money Math: Lessons for Life

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners develop a budget for a college student using all of the influences that the student would have.  In this budgeting lesson plan, students use real life examples to create a budget spreadsheet.  Learners read and study sample...
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Living Below Our Means

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Common-sense strategies that can help teachers achieve financial security through frugality.
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Take Charge of Your Financial Future

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss Biz Kids understanding that it is a program to help people become financially educated. In this mathematics lesson, students view an episode and discuss what they would do if given various situations like going out or...
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Money

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL worksheet, students study US currency.  Students respond to 20 questions orally and complete 4 various role play scenarios.
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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 activity, 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 of...
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Practice Words

For Students K - 2nd
In this trace and write worksheet, students trace and write sentences about saving money and what animals do. Students trace and write 7 lines.
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Money Museum Tour

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore the importance of banks in the United States.  In this Economics instructional activity, 12th graders participate in a simulation of what happens at a bank.  Students discuss their findings. 
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Budgeting: You Can't Manage What You Don't Know

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss budgets. In this mathematics lesson, students watch an episode of Biz Kid$ about budgeting, participate in a guided group discussion, and create a pamphlet to teach others how to budget their money. Extension activities...
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Income and Expenses

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discuss income and expenses. For this lesson on money, students define income and expenses, after whith they keep track of their income and expense transactions on a basic ledger.
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Savings and Stocks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Work together to brainstorm answers to different questions related to the savings of American people. Draw a bar graph representing stocks. Practice using new economic terms as well.
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate (9-12)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of personal finance. For this philanthropy lesson, students examine decisions they make about money as they discover the definitions of philanthropy, resources, scarcity, choice, benefits, costs, opportunity...
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Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.
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Money Lessons That Cash In

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Every child is fascinated by money. Teachers can use money lessons that expand on this inherent interest.
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Money Matters - Teaching About Economics

For Teachers 4th - 7th
The right money lesson plans can teach students about economics in an engaging way.
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Money Matters

For Teachers K - 1st
Students count, record, and calculate money. They save, as well as to explain the value of jobs and working hard.
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Kermit the Hermit

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students consider money management. In this personal finances lesson, students read Kermit the Hermit and discuss what was done with the unexpected money that Kermit received. Students examine methods of saving money and earning interest.
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Take It To the Bank

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Examine how the economics of a school store relate to real world economics. Elementary students explore various websites, complete a Venn diagram, create a schedule of wages for the students, read the book "A Chair For My Mother" and...
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Savings and Consumption

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students engage in a study that is focused upon the practice of how financial savings is accumulated and spent. This is based upon the rate of consumption with spending. The lesson helps students to create a working budget according to a...
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Combining Coupons

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Everyone likes to save money! Use your math skills to figure out just how much you can save on a pair of sweet shoes. A vendor is running a percent off sale, with a percent off coupon, and a specific dollar amount coupon—and lets you use...
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The Wheels on the Bus

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Find a cheaper way to keep buses going round and round. Small groups use their knowledge of ratios and proportions to find ways to save money on school transportation. The teams determine the number of miles buses currently travel by...
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Utah Open Textbook: Chemistry

For Students 9th - 12th
Technology can help save money and add convenience. The resource offers a free textbook for a complete Chemistry course. The text begins with a review of the scientific method and continues to explain topics such as chemical bonding,...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members research three different ways they can earn money using money already in the bank. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money...
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The Leaves in October

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine whether or not to save or spend and defend a decision.  For this personal finance lesson, students identify opportunity cost of various spending and saving decisions. Students read a story where two girls share profits...
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The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use the book, The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, to explore spending, collecting, opportunity cost, saving, and speculating.

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