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Money is used to buy goods and services. Money can come in different forms such as cash, credit, and debit. It's important to learn how to manage money responsibly.
Understanding Money
Problem Solving: Process of looking at a situation, identifying a problem, and coming up with a solution. Cause and Effect: Relationship between two events or things, where one is the result of the other or others. Critical Thinking: Process of actively and skillfully analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach a conclusion.
Concepts:
The average person spends about 2 hours and 22 minutes a day doing household chores. The average person spends a total of 12 hours and 42 minutes a day on leisure activities like watching TV, talking on the phone, or surfing the internet. The average person will spend a total of 5 years and 4 months of their life commuting to work or school.
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Brain break: Draw a smiling cupcake with four legs and pink sunglasses
Question: Lily and Sam each have $20. They want to buy a toy that costs $23. How can they buy the toy with the money they have? Clues: • Lily and Sam can combine their money to get $40. • They can ask their parents for help. • They can split the cost with a friend. In pairs: Select and solve one of the tasks: A. Brainstorm ways to get the extra $3 they need. B. Draw a picture of Lily and Sam finding a creative solution to their problem.
If a train leaves the station at 2:00 pm and travels at 60 miles per hour, how far will it have gone by 3:30 pm?
If a recipe calls for 2 cups of flour to make one batch of cookies, how many cups would you need to make three batches?
A pizza parlor sells an average of 75 pizzas per day. How many pizzas will they sell in a month (30 days)?
- 2250 pizzas
- 750 pizzas
- 2500 pizzas
If ten people can paint a house in five days, how many people would it take to paint the same house in two days?
- 25 people
- 20 people
- 50 people
A car travels at an average speed of 55 mph for two hours. How far did it travel?
- 110 miles
- 120 miles
- 100 miles
Work together in pairs: What is the total cost of the item if you buy 35 of them at $13.95 each and receive a 10% discount?