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Money

1. 50 State Quarters Program lesson plans
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 6 Cost: Free ENC#: 028332
   This web site provides more than 60 lesson plans for grades K-6 in which students use state quarters to explore topics in many different subjects. Lesson plans are provided for K-1, 2-3, and 4-6 grade bands, with lessons in math, science, reading, and more for each grade band.
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2. Moneyopolis: where money sense rules!
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 029466
   This Internet site offers an educational game developed to help students in grades 6-8 learn basic financial planning concepts. Students must help an animated alien character named Xerbie fix his broken spaceship by answering a series of questions involving money management.
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3. Practical money skills for life
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 023965
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by the Visa credit card company, is designed to help educators, parents, and students learn to practice good money management for life. Visa partnered with consumer advocates, educators, and financial institutions to launch this program in order to help consumers of all ages, particularly today's youths, become financially savvy.
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4. A+ Math
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 4 Cost: Free ENC#: 012800
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed by software engineers and an elementary school teacher, offers students grades K to 4 an interactive mathematical Web page with flashcards, homework help, and games. Flashcards include activities for practicing arithmetic computation, reducing fractions, figuring money amounts using a visual of bills and coins, and recognizing geometric shapes.
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5. Helping your child learn math
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): Pre-K - 7 Cost: Free ENC#: 011078
   This web site from the United States Department of Education, intended for parents of children in Pre-K to grade 7, is the archived on-line version of the book by the same title. This book is divided into introductory material that explains the basic principles behind the current approach to math, sections on activities, and lists of resources.
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6. Funbrain.com: where kids get power
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 4 Cost: Free ENC#: 011932
   This Internet site offers an entertaining way for elementary students to practice fundamental learning skills. Each of the five sections of this interactive site contains a game designed to help students improve their math, spelling, or writing.
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7. Movie money: do movies make money?
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 100661
   The initial question for this online activity asks students to determine if showing movies makes money for theater owners. Given information about box office receipts, the percentage of receipts that theater owners pay to movie distributors, and overhead costs, students answer the question by making calculations and organizing information in a suggested table.
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8. Money math: lessons for life
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 7 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 026793
   This electronic document contains four different lesson plans for grades 7-9 that are designed to teach the basics of personal finance, including savings, budgets, and taxes. The lessons start with a story that students can relate to their own lives.
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9. A math website: a learning site for middle school students
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 002126
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is for middle school students, grades 5 to 8. This site contains problem solving activities, information concerning the numbers in today's date, links to other sites containing mathematics related to potential fifth to eighth grade concepts, and lesson extensions such as writing problems for classmates or connected sites where other problems are solved.
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