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8th grade basic operations simulations
Stock Market Crash Simulation Activity│1929 │Great Depression │PowerPoint Game
This interactive PowerPoint activity will review the climate of the 1920's and introduce the basic of trading on the stock market to your 5th graders.Students will work together in "investment teams" and trade on the stock market with their starting $1,000. The game winds its way through the 1920s, eventually crashing on Black Tuesday. I highly recommend using this as an activity to introduce the stock market crash. The first time I tried this activity, I had already taught about Black Tuesda
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5th - 8th
Real-to-Life Classroom Economy System | Math Class Structure
PURPOSE: This real-to-life, year-long simulation allows students to see what earning a paycheck feels like as well as many other life events we all run into concerning money: reoccurring bills, loans, second jobs, banking paperwork, and of course debt. Don’t just print out classroom dollars for your students to shuffle around – using my guide they will set up a checking account, fill out bank deposit slips, complete job applications, balance a checkbook and so much more. Every single piece of “g
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3rd - 8th
Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
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6th - 12th
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Percents: Understanding Credit Card Debt Worksheet for Student - Scenario 1
The question listed on Scenario 1 is as follows:
"In this scenario we purchased 1 item for $1000. (This could be a new TV, summer vacation, Laptop, etc.) We did not have the cash at the time so we charged it to our Visa. This particular credit card requires that we make a minimum payment of 13% each month. It also has an APR of 10%. Fill out the chart to find out how much you have paid at the end of the year and if you have a remaining balance. "
The chart is a great way for students to disc
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7th - 10th
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The Game of Life | Math Exploration
PURPOSE: This simulation gives your math class a chance to experience what it is like to be an adult. Students will be randomly assigned a job and a family and be required to calculate a month’s worth of expenses.This activity brings up some great discussions about how money works, what happens when the money runs out, single parenting, managing a budget and so much more. This is such a useful resource for the modern middle school mathematics teacher!WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains:✏️ 18 p
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5th - 8th
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Math Munchies Cafe: Tips, Discounts, Tax, Percents
This real life application will help your students practice finding prices after taxes, tips, and discounts. Transform your classroom into a restaurant with these easy to follow guidelines, menu, and student worksheets. Invite younger students to visit and be your customers (they will have the opportunity to practice adding decimals and making change). My students LOVE becoming waiters/waitresses in the "Math Muchies Cafe" and will have a better understanding of the never ending question of:
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3rd - 8th
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SONAR Calculations and Graphing
In this classroom activity, students are guided through the calculations necessary to obtain ocean depth from SONAR data. Then they use data to complete a profile of the part of ocean floor from which the data came. Please note: this does not show all the parts of the ocean floor. Image and activity where adapted from Naval History STEM H.
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6th - 12th
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REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS PERSONAL FINANCE MINI UNIT
· This Personal Finance mini unit is often described as having the biggest impact on students’ real-world understanding. · Often, these lessons are the first-time students have been asked to consider their relationship with money, their knowledge of how much goods and services cost, and their own values.· Students will examine income, expenses, and household budget in order to understand how their career salaries will be put to use in the real world. Knowing the different salary withholdings and
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS Personal Finance and Understand Income DIGITAL
Dream Home: Utilizing Money, Area, Perimeter, and Conversion
STEM UNIT: Becoming an architect may seem so wonderful, but students may think twice after designing, building, and repairing problems in their new home. This is a unit that allows students to use a combination of math skills and critical thinking to be the architect of their own dream home on a budget. The students will engage in researching architecture of homes and house plans, designing their house plan, purchasing materials and labor, and dealing with problems along the way. The skills used
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5th - 8th
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Profit & Loss Lemonade Stand Roleplay Game (Supply & Demand Lessons too)
Teach Profit & Loss (and Supply & Demand) through a fun game that students will enjoy. Also included in this pack is a fun auction lesson to teach supply & demand. I wanted to teach my students about profit and loss and give them an experience learning how a business works before they created their own. I wanted them to learn:- How to plan/organize what they need to buy- Keep a profit/loss record (doing the math themselves)- About borrowing/repaying loans (with interest that grows ov
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5th - 12th
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INVESTING IN THE STOCK MARKET : an in-class simulation guide
This is a 29 page package to support teachers in running a 24 day stock market simulation in their grade 5-10 classroom. I have used a version of this in my class for several years now and the kids LOVE it! I have adjusted it and perfected it to include a 24 page student booklet, an evaluation sheet, and a three page SPECIFIC teacher instruction manual.
I offer this exact resource IN FRENCH. Check out La classe de Mme Geneviève for other Math Resources and French Immersion Resources.
Thank
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5th - 10th
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My Budget Project
This is a great end of year math project! You can give students a career with a realistic salary and challenge them to create a monthly budget. Each slide will need to depict a different monthly cost like rent, car payment, etc. This will give the students a good real life look into the cost of living. At the end of the slides, there is an example project for to show students.
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8th - 11th
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Checking Account Simulation
Do you need a lesson to teach students how to balance a checkbook? A PowerPoint presentation is included instructs students on how to balance their own checkbook and then gives them some "real world" practice. The PowerPoint includes writing a check, using a debit card, and making deposits. Also included is the handouts that you will give students in order for them to participate in the simulation. One handout is a checkbook register and the other handout has blank checks that students will writ
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Scholarship Project Based Learning - Adding & Subtracting Decimals
Congratulations! Your students are awarded a set amount of money to spend to decorate their college dorm room. The activity includes:
* Step by Step Instructions
* Balance Sheet
* Sample Checks
* Additional Earning Opportunities
* Differentiation Suggestions
* Teacher Tips
* Rubric
With this problem based learning activity, your students will have practice adding and subtracting decimals, balancing a check registry, writing checks, planning a budget, shopping for the best deal, and man
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5th - 8th
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Concession Stand - A Full Unit Business Simulation
Concession Stand is a business simulation for grades 8 - 12. Students will open a business and use their math skills to complete order forms, update inventory, pay bills, keep a ledger, and open for days of sale. This project works with higher level Blooms Taxonomy and allows students to work together in groups.
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8th - 12th
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LA BOURSE : UNE SIMULATION EN CLASSE (Stock Market simulation kit)
This is a 28 page package to support teachers in running a 24 day stock market simulation in their grade 5-10 classroom. I have used a version of this in my class for several years now and the kids LOVE it! I have adjusted it and perfected it to include a 24 page student booklet, an evaluation sheet, and a three page SPECIFIC teacher instruction manual.The entire content is IN FRENCH for the French Immersion--or francophone--classroom. I also offer this exact product IN ENGLISH, if you are int
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5th - 10th
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Vocational Support- Calculating Gross Pay
Whether individuals participate in competitive employment or sheltered employment, they need to be able to calculate their pay. Individuals can be paid in a variety of ways: hourly, by piece, commission, or salary. For this resource, I have chosen to focus on hourly pay. In the next few weeks I will publish other resources with piece pay, commission and salary. I will also be publishing work that relates to deductions and net pay. This is a great transition activity and can also be tied to vocat
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Vocational Support Bundle
Caribbean Economy Simulation (Supply and Demand/Single Crop)
In this simulation, students will play the role of Plantation owner and will try to grow their sugarcane empire through buying and selling fields, paying workers' wages and government taxes, and reaping the profit after each harvest. However, it also demonstrates the law of supply and demand and teaches a lesson about diversifying your economy as the price of sugarcane fluctuates on the world market from harvest to harvest. Students wait in breathless anticipation as each harvest price is reveal
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6th - 9th
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2 WEEK CLASSROOM STOCK MARKET - Financial Literacy for most Grade levels!
A two week (with room for adding or taking away) activity simulating the stock market in your classroom! Students will interact with 8 different age-appropriate 'stocks':- Gold, Shell gas, McDonald's, Banana, Air Canada, Cineplex, Nike, GoogleStart each day with an exciting, hands-on, and real-world skills based 15-20 mins of students buying, selling, and trading in the classroom stock market. Students will be able to practice mental math of all basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplic
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Life Science - Natural Selection and Adaptations of Ocean Organisms
This Life Science lab investigation explores natural selection and adaptations of ocean organisms. The lab is directly tied to NGSS expectations (MS-LS4-4, MS-LS4-6).
INCLUDES:
• A one-page teacher guide with NGSS connections.
• A blank student-page with procedure, data table, and analysis questions.
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7th - 10th
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The Ultimate Math Games & Classroom Simulations Bundle with 2 FREE Math Products
This is The ULTIMATE Math Games & Classroom Simulation Bundle from Brain Brigade! FIVE fun and interactive concepts from games to classroom simulations. Your kids will be begging to do math (without even knowing it!). With this bundle, we throw in TWO FREE math products for a total of seven products in this math bundle.
We include:
-TOP SELLER Probability Fun and Games - Exploring Fractions, Decimals, Percentages and More!
-Mental Math - Multiplying by 10, 100, 1,000, 11, 12 and More!
-Make
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4th - 8th
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Expressions & Equations: Very Small & Very Large Numbers
What more exciting way to discuss very small and very large numbers than with outer space as the backdrop?Students will use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other.Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future purchases:***Go to your My Purchases page. Click on the Provide Feedback button beside each purchase. You will be taken to a page where you can
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6th - 8th
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Make Your Own Company
I came up with the idea of creating a company as a form of authentic intellectual work. Fortunately for me, my principal officially observed me during this particular lesson and told me later that he taught it was “exceptional”. I hope you can use it in your classroom so the students can use their creativity and learn math at the same time. There’s a broad range of mathematical value that can be associated to this lesson including, but not limited to:
Ordering decimals
Adding decimals
Subtractin
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4th - 8th
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Menu Venue - Restaurant Simulation Activity
Students will apply computation and money skills in a fun restaurant simulation activity. An anecdotal assessment rubric is included.
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4th - 8th
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