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Sunshine Math-2
In this problem solving activity, learners complete 8 varied word problems. Included are money, addition and subtraction, counting and fractions.
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Sunshine Math- 3
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 8 varied word and story problems. Included are greater than/less than, multiplication and division, perimeter, patterns and money.
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Sunshine Math- 2 Earth, IV
In this math problem solving learning exercise, students complete 6 problems that include: pictographs, reasoning, basic operations, and money.
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Sunshine Math- 2 Earth, XIX
In this problem solving learning exercise, learners complete 7problems that include skills in fractions, calculators, money, measurement, calendars and basic operations.
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Sunshine Math- 2 Earth, XVI
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 8 word problems that include basic operations, money, reasoning, and telling time.
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Sunshine Math- 2 Earth, XI
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 7 story problems that include: estimating, money, patterns and calendars.
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Sunshine Math- 5 Saturn, III
In this problem solving worksheet, students complete 8 varied problems that include: money, pictographs, fractions, symmetry and basic operations.
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Sunshine Math- 3 Mars, III
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 8 varied problems that include: elapsed time, basic operations, money, patterns and reasoning.
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Sunshine Math- 1 Venus, XIII
In this math applications worksheet, students complete 7 varied questions that include: adding money, counting, estimation, symmetry and reasoning.
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Sunshine Math- 5 Saturn, VI
In this math applications instructional activity, students solve 8 problems pertaining to probability, patterns, coins, order of operations, graphs and equations.
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The Color of Money
Students explore the success of members of racial and ethnic minorities in the business world through discussing a related New York Times article. They interview successful people in various professions who would be considered minority.
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Living Below Our Means
Common-sense strategies that can help teachers achieve financial security through frugality.
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Hands On: Multiply Whole Numbers and Fractions
Learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve six story problems.
Yummy Math
Diapers
Most of your students probably think a car or college is the first big expense their parents could help them with, but as it turns out these kids have been costing their parents for their whole lives. Have they ever considered how much...
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Credit and Debt: Decisions, Decisions...
Borrowing money seems like a great idea until you are in over your head. High schoolers learn the benefits and risks associated with credit and how to be a responsible borrower. More than just credit cards, they learn trustworthiness is...
Perkins School for the Blind
Coin Identification
You got some money, and you're not afraid to use it. Before you can use that money, you need to know what it's worth. Included is a set of activity instructions that will help your visually impaired learners indentify coins. Pupils are...
Illustrative Mathematics
Chocolate Bar Sales
In this real-world example, algebra learners start to get a sense of how to represent the relationship between two variables in different ways. They start by looking at a partial table of values that define a linear relationship. They...
Illustrative Mathematics
The Parking Lot
Use the real-world cost of parking a car to demonstrate the properties of a function. The resource describes to learners how much it is to park in a certain lot. It is up to your number crunchers to complete a table of minutes and...
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Take It To the Bank
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...
Perkins School for the Blind
Grocery Shopping
Grab those reusable bags, it's time to go shopping! Intended to foster independent living skills in learners with visual impairments, the instructional activity covers several topics related to grocery shopping. They start by planning a...
EngageNY
Why Do Banks Pay YOU to Provide Their Services?
How does a bank make money? That is the question at the based of a lesson that explores the methods banks use to calculate interest. Groups compare the linear simple interest pattern with the exponential compound interest pattern.
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Stock Swaps, Variation 2
If Microsoft wanted to take over Apple, how many shares would they need to break even? This is an ideal task for seventh graders who are studying proportional relationships and applying them to real-world scenarios. Use it as an...
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Looping and Simulation
Young computer scientists continue programming with while loops by creating a program to simulate coins flipping.
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Does My hair Disrupt Your Learning?
Students use the internet to research ways to save and earn money. They interview bankers and financial counselors to discover different types of investments. Students create public service announcements to inform their classmates of...