Students explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Students identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next several...

Twelfth graders perform basic calculations for saving and investment strategies. they simulate the investment of $1,000 in the stock market and savings account. they determine which pays the greater dividend.

Here's a little holiday-oriented math review/challenge. Three-up on a single sheet for copying, each set consists of five problems that range from three- and four-digit subtraction to multiplication and division to four and five. Typo...

Tellers, loans, and money oh my! What fun, a bank-themed word search. The class needs to locate and circle 18 banking related terms. Tip: Have them compose sentences using the banking words. 

Feeling ambitious about getting your scholars examining the election process? While this presidential election simulation will take preparation, the ensuing enthusiasm will be worth it! Using one or more large classes, 12th graders are...

Twelfth graders practice filling out IRS 1040 EZ forms. They discuss various ways people pay taxes. They assess the importance of W-2 forms and apply skills using the IRS tax table to compute how much money is owed or returned.

Students explore the loss and gain made in the stock market as they invest a sum of money and report the results as percentages instead of points.

What are the differences in life style between the President and Vice President? Learners use this chart to help them analyze where they live, how much money they make, and which presidential team really worked together. 

Your class can use this to warm up or to discuss their problem solving strategies. They review the 8's times tables, relate the multiplication problems to division, then use a chart to solve a word problem involving money.

Kick-start children's education with this pre-school math unit. Offering 31 different hands-on learning activities that develop young mathematicians' pattern and shape recognition, basic number sense, and much more, this is a...

Students explore the nature of money and how foreign exchange rates work. They write reports based on their research.

Young scholars are introduced to mythology and create modern versions of ancient myths based on figures represented on modern U.S. coins.

Students study math. In this real-life problem solving lesson, students work on their skills dealing with time and money. They work in small groups on various time and money word problems and by the final day they have a final problem...

Students design and create foil coins with images that symbolize students' imaginary leadership in the ancient world. They model their coins on those made for Alexander the Great. They discuss what made him an important historical figure.

Students view and discuss visual symbols around them every day, analyze symbols on United States one dollar bill, explore variety of meanings of same symbols depending on context and culture, and create their own money with symbols that...

Third graders add and subtract decimals.  In this third grade mathematics lesson, 3rd graders are given an imaginary $100 to purchase five Beanie Babies.  Students determine which five they would like to purchase and estimate...

Students purchase grocery items from the classroom grocery store using appropriate play coins and bills. Students define various economic terms. Students comprehend the concept of a medium for exchange.

Students estimate the amount of money a non-smoking teen spends in a week, a month, and a year, and compare it with the expenses of a teen who smokes one, two, and three packs a day. They research other reasons that teens should not smoke.

In this consumer mathematics worksheet, students calculate the total amount of money they earned during a project given. Then they transfer the expenses from each month to find their totals. Students also calculate to find their final...

Students start with $19 of Cookie Mining Money with which they must buy his/her own "mining property" or cookie. After cookies are bought, students give their "mine" a name, record it, along with the price of their cookie on the sheet.

Students answer time and money questions to solve a mystery. In this time and money lesson, students act as detectives to find Secret Agent Stan's identification number by answering questions from his logbook involving elapsed time and...

Students calculate how they will spend a million dollars.  In this millionaire math instructional activity, students complete a worksheet and then make a poster of how they would spend a million dollars.  Each item and its cost...

Learners first explore the power of the visual image to convey a message by examining the portrait of George Washington on American dollar bills. They next use, 'Prolific Chinese Painter Is Anonymous No More,' to explore a famous...

Young scholars explore that some resources are finite. They are able to deelop an understanding of commodities-some resources are worth more than others so companies choose to spend more money to find them. Students realize that some...