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Lesson Plan

Book Orders: Money

Don't throw away all of those extra copies of your book order forms! They make great springboards for math lessons. This lesson integrates them into activities designed to help young learners with money math.
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to add and subtract dollar amounts.

Introduction

(10 minutes)
  • Tell students that today we are going to order books using book order forms.
  • Tell them they can have $10.00 to spend; they need to keep within that budget of $10.00.
  • Give them each a calculator to check their totals. Remind them that they will add them up first by hand.
  • Pass out a book order form to each of the students.