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The Wonderful World of Math was designed to help teach universal life skills and wherever possible, align with the Essential Elements for Special Education Students as part of the Common Core Standards. There are over 200 reproducible worksheets and activities that will teach cross-content curriculum, vocabulary, reading, writing, oral skills, abstract thinking in addition to math skills. There are six chapters in The Wonderful World of Math: Charts and Graphs, Let’s Go Shopping, Learning Perc

(The Wonderful World of Ads - Math is one of the three chapters in the complete book.) Teach valuable life skills such as, budgeting and nutrition, using a common community resource! By using the students’ own local ethnic grocery store ads in conjunction with these reproducible worksheets, you can simulate real life situations. The Wonderful World of Ads worksheets cover a wide range of academic levels from basic sight words identification and categorizing to the more complex budgeting and men

Teach valuable life skills such as, budgeting and nutrition, using a common community resource! By using the students’ own local ethnic grocery store ads in conjunction with these reproducible worksheets, you can simulate real life situations. The Wonderful World of Ads worksheets cover a wide range of academic levels from basic sight words identification and categorizing to the more complex budgeting and menu planning. Teach functional language arts, math and nutrition skills in a fun and meani

(The Wonderful World of Ads - Nutrition is one of the three chapter in the complete book) Teach valuable life skills such as, budgeting and nutrition, using a common community resource! By using the students’ own local ethnic grocery store ads in conjunction with these reproducible worksheets, you can simulate real life situations. The Wonderful World of Ads worksheets cover a wide range of academic levels from basic sight words identification and categorizing to the more complex budgeting and m

(Charts and Graphs is one of the six chapters from The Wonderful World of Math) The Charts and Graphs worksheets describe the different types of graphs: bar, line, pictographs and pie charts. The students will practice working problems for each of the different types of graphs. Students will also be able to conduct their own surveys and plot their results on their own graph. The concept of probability is introduced and exercises are provided. The Wonderful World of Math was designed to help te

(Reading Schedules is one of the six chapters in The Wonderful World of Math) The students will learn how to read a variety of schedules that they use in their everyday lives. Schedules such as class, lunch, work, TV, movie, bus/train and even sports are featured. They will also have the opportunity to apply their skills by finding, reading and creating their own local schedules. The Wonderful World of Math was designed to help teach universal life skills and wherever possible, align with the Es

Teach valuable life skills such as, budgeting and nutrition, using a common community resource! By using the students’ own local ethnic grocery store ads in conjunction with these reproducible worksheets, you can simulate real life situations. The Wonderful World of Ads worksheets cover a wide range of academic levels from basic sight words identification and categorizing to the more complex budgeting and menu planning. Teach functional language arts, math and nutrition skills in a fun and mean

Description and Rules for Playing The Reading Schedules Game! Reinforce the skills learned in the Reading Schedules chapter with a fun game! The Reading Schedules Game allows students to practice reading important schedules in their lives, such as Class, Movie, TV, Bus and Train schedules. Seven new schedules are included along with 100 questions and 10 bonus questions that will provide an additional challenge for your students. The questions are presented as requiring; fill-in-the-blank, mult

(Learning Percents! is one of the six chapters in The Wonderful World of Math) Students will learn about the different ways they are likely to see percents, as used in their everyday lives. Percents that are used as: a ratio, in terms of money or as a fraction or decimal. They will also practice practical application of percents in figuring out sale prices, using coupons and determining sales tax. .The Wonderful World of Math was designed to help teach universal life skills and wherever possi

(The Wonderful World of Ads - Language Arts is one of the three chapters in the complete book) Teach valuable life skills such as, budgeting and nutrition, using a common community resource! By using the students’ own local ethnic grocery store ads in conjunction with these reproducible worksheets, you can simulate real life situations. The Wonderful World of Ads worksheets cover a wide range of academic levels from basic sight words identification and categorizing to the more complex budgeting

(Let's go Shopping is one of the six chapter in the Wonderful World of Math) Let’s Go Shopping uses local store ads to teach a variety of skills. These skills include; finding prices, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, comparing prices and practice staying within a budget. The students will also work on identifying the items needed to set up their own apartment and the cost of these items. The Wonderful World of Math was designed to help teach universal life skills and wherever po

(Time to Measure is one of the six chapters in The Wonderful World of Math) In this chapter the students will practice a variety of different ways to measure. They will use a ruler, measure with time (analog and digital), and use fractional measurements in recipes. Geometry is introduced to the students as they learn to find the perimeter and area of a two dimensional and volume of a three dimensional objects. Perpendicular, parallel and intersecting lines are also explored. Not only will the st

Banking UnitAs the common expression goes “Money is what makes the world go around.” Banking is a topic that affects us all in one way or another. We cannot function in our society without the involvement, in some way of our banking system. Whether we use a bank just to keep our money safe for us or getting a loan to buy a car, it is an integral part of our daily experience. Although most banking can now be done online, it is very impor

(Problem Solving is one of the six chapters in The Wonderful World of Math) The students will be introduced to algebra and will then use it to solve practical word problems. They will be asked to find the missing number in a math problem by using formulas of addition/subtraction and multiplication/division. The student will also learn how to work multiple step problems by breaking them down into smaller, simpler steps. The Wonderful World of Math was designed to help teach universal life skills

Take a seemingly mundane subject such as trash and flesh out the importance of the safe disposal of trash and recycling in everyday life. How many students have ever considered the entire trash cycle and the difference they can make in their own world by altering their habits? Where else can you find a complicated and important subject presented in an easy-to-understand format? Teach about recycling by studying the R’s in the recycle symbol, reduce, reuse, and recycle. Students will actively pa

Take a seemingly mundane subject such as trash and flesh out the importance of the safe disposal of trash and recycling in everyday life. How many students have ever considered the entire trash cycle and the difference they can make in their own world by altering their habits? Where else can you find a complicated and important subject presented in an easy-to-understand format? Teach about recycling by studying the R’s in the recycle symbol, reduce, reuse, and recycle. Students will actively pa