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Discover how picture books can give your classroom an instant boost by combining literature, math, and economics to teach activity-based lessons.  The provided lessons and activities enhance learning, promote critical thinking, and build problem solving skills.  Featured books include classi…

Can you learn economics from the weather? Students will be able to integrate science, math, and economics through this engaging lesson. The forecast predicts some percentage chance of success.

The K-5 Math and Economic lessons are adaptable for use in daily, after school, or summer school classrooms. Teachers have the content and pedagogy to successfully educate students using integrated math, economics and personal finance standards. Each grade-level unit contains lessons related…

In this economics and personal finance webinar, teachers will learn how to implement the Math in the Real World collection.

Paul Solman reflects on economist Paul Samuelson, who died at the age of 94. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics.

COMPELLING QUESTION: Why do people tend to procrastinate when it comes to doing things that are good for them? Students observe a “mind” that tries to decide whether to exercise or not. They see how discounting can change a person’s intended choices and actual choice…

This updated lesson is based on the novel, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. Set mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s, 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen, works six days a week, from dawn until dusk, running weaving looms in a murky dust-and lint-filled factory, trying to save enough money to…

This interactive session features new picture books that have the potential for some amazing STEM lessons and activities.

Women's History Month Series: Learn about picture book biographies of STEM innovators to inspire outside of the box thinking.

In this math lesson, students will use net income & net worth equations to learn about wealth and equality (math).