Give students important life skills by teaching them about money and financial concepts and how to apply math to the world around them!
This dynamic teaching resource provides reproducible cut-out math manipulatives, reference sheets, and visual aids to support students as they explore real-world lessons and hands-on activities related to paying bills, earning money at a job, saving for retirement, making investments, buying and using insurance, and more.
Recipient of a Mom's Choice Gold Award
,
Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities books
provide a valuable tool for educators and parents to instill an awareness of money and finance in kids.
Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities
for Grades 6 - 8 is based on national and state standards and enriches any math curriculum in the classroom and home.
What's Inside
Grades 6 - 8
is based on current national and state standards, and each of the 10 units includes:
Teacher overview
with a suggested teaching plan, discussion questions, and vocabulary
Real-world story
that introduces each unit's theme in the context of real life
Cross-curricular activities
including vocabulary, reading comprehension, and social studies
Math application
that presents scenarios using money-based word problems
Hands-on activities
such as partner and whole-class games and role playing that bring the concepts to life
Valuable teaching tools include these reproducible worksheets:
Cut-out math manipulatives such as play money
Reference sheets and visual aids for decimals, percentages, graphs, and fractions
Glossary of vocabulary words
144 reproducible pages. Includes answer key.
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