Observe and demonstrate how to calculate state sales taxes. Learners create a sales tax chart by calculating the sales tax amount and tax inclusive retail price for school store items, then calculate the subtotals, sales tax amounts, and...

First graders are tasked to find the amount of money in dollars Pia came to the store with, after she bought five dollars worth of school supplies.

Does money seem to slip through your middle schoolers' fingers? Encourage them to examine spending, saving, and budgeting habits with a unit on consumer skills and money management. Young spenders study the waste that occurs with school...

Make sure to get enough for everyone. The three-part assessment task requires scholars to calculate with decimals. Learners determine the cost of school supplies and whether the teachers have ordered enough. The assessment is the sixth...

Third graders use their math and research skills to create and manage a classroom/school store. They use a computer to manage, organize and access information. They practice pricing products, computing sales, counting money and...

Do you like candy? Tim and Pat go to the candy store every day after school. Can you use the chart to determine how much money they spend each day? Does one spend more than the other? 

Young spenders take a look at the best ways to save and spend money. This type of financial education is lacking in schools, so implementing this lesson would be of great value to your young scholars. Things like bank checking account...

Students study money and its place in the economy.  In this middle school Consumer Math lesson plan, students explore the barter system and the need for money.  Students explore how money works in society and explore modern...

Second graders assess a brief history of money, the use of money, working with money as well as adding and subtracting with money and how to spend money wisely with responsibility. In addition, they discuss how everything belongs to God...

Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...

Enrich your study of food science with with these math worksheets. They offer a variety of food-related word problems that are great practice for multiplying, identifying fractions, estimating length, and performing calculations...

First graders identify different coins and use their values in combination with each other to buy different objects. For this coins lesson plan, 1st graders identify the value of a quarter, dime, nickel, and penny, and use them to buy...

First graders explore money. In this coins value lesson, 1st graders discover the values of all the U.S. coins and practice arranging them in order to buy objects. They will play a game as a class to practice the skill of using money to...

Learners study the monetary value of a penny, nickel, and dime. They simulate a candy store by calculating the proper amount of money needed to purchase candy. After viewing a video, they complete the "Handful of Coins" pictograph .

For this online interactive math skills worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems that regarding money. Students may view the correct answers.

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...

Six questions make up a mixed practice activity. Scholars use their knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, money, perimeter, ounces, and pounds to solve word problems with numbers up to 66,000.

When did math become so relevant? Scholars choose from four operations to solve five word problems dealing with money and measurements. They show their work in a designated space, and must include units in their answers. Learners work...

Students count, record, and calculate money. They save, as well as to explain the value of jobs and working hard.

Students pretend to purchase items at their class store using coins. At the store, they are to state the amount of the item they want to buy by reading the label. They give the cashier the correct amount of coins and are given a mark on...

Explore the concept of rounding numbers to the nearest dollar or dime. Youngsters use a "round-o-meter" to determine which direction to round a number. They make round-o-meters out of a piece of paper, a piece of string, and a paper clip.

Explore the concept of money and research its origin. There are many concepts related to business math, thusly, there are many formulas used to make calculations around money. Exchange rates of money in different countries, interest,...

Students identify the value of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, and use a variety of coins to show the value of a dollar. They count the exact amount of purchase.