Practical Arithmetic Series

Item #: GF1813

Sale Price: $6.99

Interest Level:

Gr. 5–Adult

Reading Level:

Gr. 3–4

Components:

Teacher Guides

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Help students learn the arithmetic, computational, and consumer skills they need to succeed in school, and throughout their lives.

High interest is maintained, through real life examples and sample forms.

Only the Teacher's Guides remain for this series.

Money Makes Sense

• Teaches such essential skills as sequencing, coin addition, dollar and coin combinations, and matching money with price tags.
• Teaches and reviews simple arithmetic through exercises that involve counting and adding money under ten dollars.
• Provides realistic illustrations of U.S. coins and dollar bills.
• Features a visual approach that is helpful to your lowest-level or more visually-oriented learners.

Buying With Sense

• Guides students in making consumer decisions, drawing up a budget, and finding a job.
• Features valuable information about prices, products, and services including banking and telephone services, furniture, cars, and apartment rentals.

Using Dollars And Sense

• Guides students through realistic shopping activities to develop essential, everyday money skills .
• Includes practice in such tasks as estimating, using supermarket shelf labels, averaging prices, and finding errors on receipts.
• Contains a reproducible multiplication chart and table of weights and measures to help students in class and beyond.
• Introduces $5, $10, and $20 bills; covers simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in amounts under $100.

Working Makes Sense

• Students practice such skills as using fractions, percents, and amounts over $100 while they learn about employment, banking, and budgeting.
• Introduces ATM machines, check endorsement, bank statements, and employee benefits.
• Covers time cards, hourly earnings, raises, interest calculations, commissions, taxes, and many other day-to-day challenges.