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

Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities 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.