Million Dollar Project - Real World Math Project for Decimals and Money 4th 5th
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This million dollar project gives your students a real world math project apply what they have learned about decimals, money, graphing, and percents. This makes a great financial literacy project to help kids understand costs, spending, and where money goes.
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This resource includes:
- Teacher information and ideas for helpful websites for gathering information
- Student recording sheet for tracking spending
- Student sheet for calculating percentage of money spent in different categories
- Student sheet for making a circle graph to show how money was spent
- Examples for teacher reference or to show students during instruction
Skills Include:
- Adding decimals - adding money
- Tracking spending
- Finding the percent of a whole - percent of a number
- Circle graphs
- Budgeting
Students can also put together a presentation of how they spent their money if you want to incorporate public speaking and presentation skills.
My students LOVE doing this project every year! It really helps them with computation skills, planning and organization, and grasping the concept of how much one million really is.
Depending on which components of this resource you choose to have students complete, and the level of your students, this project can take anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks. You can control how much time you want to spend on it.
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