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In this lesson, students will apply their measurement and fraction skills in a real-world cooking scenario. Given a recipe and a list of available pantry items, students will determine whether they have enough of each ingredient to complete the recipe (yes/no). After identifying missing ingredients, students will create a grocery list of the items they need to purchase. They will then look up the cost of each item and calculate the total amount of money required. This lesson reinforces: Compari

Higher-level Thanksgiving budgeting functional math, class project (broken up into three parts for the students to complete). Requires students to practice looking up prices of food items in circulars/ grocery websites. This can easily be edited to fit any holiday/ upcoming event.

Addition & Subtraction Word Problems UnitMultiplication & Division (w/Word Problems) UnitMeasurement UnitCalculating Percents & DIscounts Unit

This is an introductory unit to multiplication and division functional math skills. Day one of multiplication includes three scaffolded levels for your students! Included is a multiplication facts jeopardy game. After learning their math facts, your students will be able to apply what they know to help solve real-world multiplication & division word problems. All documents can be easily adjusted to fit the needs of your students!

Real-life word problems unit for functional math skills. This unit covers addition and subtraction, with an introduction to multiplication. A bonus assignment is included that also does a brief introduction to real-life division word problems. This assignment can easily be adjusted to fit the needs of your students!

This includes a full budgeting project (modified level). A Thanksgiving budgeting class project is included. Requires students to use the dollar up method, and plan for a holiday meal while keeping a budget in mind. Can easily be edited to fit any holiday/ upcoming event.

This is a fully scaffolded unit to teach how to convert percents to decimals, as well as how to calculate sales discounts (working towards appropriately using coupons). This unit has step-by-step prompts throughout and is appropriately scaffolded for a special education math class.

Measurement Unit for any grade applicable. This was initially created for a life skills/ functional math class for comprehensive students. Includes a week or two worth of materials (possibly more -- depending on the pace your students learn).

Halloween functional math budgeting (classroom lesson/activity).

This is an activity that gives students the opportunity to make purchases based on an order ticket. They will be asked to locate the price of each item, correctly calculate the quantity of each item, pay with the appropriate bills/coins combination, as well as make the appropriate change when asked. The slides can be easily edited to change the prices and/or items shown. This has two levels of modifications.

Get festive this Valentine's Day season with your math class! This is a word problem lesson that touches on all four operations and has a focus on utilizing keywords. Feel free to add more problems to your slides lesson or split the operations across multiple days.

This is a story about Linda's Valentine's Day party. Attached to this activity are literal and inferential questions based on the text. A writing activity or Valentine's Day craft could easily be added to the end of this reading if you'd like to extend the assignment!

This can be used as a great analysis activity of Inside Out 2 in regards to emotions, friendship, and the choices that adolescents make in their lives while navigating various situations. (Mulitple choice, open-ended, and short essay style questions included with time stamps for the film connected to specific questions).

This is a budgeting activity that has your students use their given budget to decide what they can purchase without going over their spending limit. It will ask your students to identify different prices such as most expensive and least expensive items, as well as what their change will be after buying certain items. This activity can easily be turned into more of a hands-on activity when incorporating store circulars instead!

This is an easily editable PowerPoint/ google slides activity that can be done at the end of a school year or semester. It is a great way for students to look back on all that they have accomplished this past year and look forward towhat is to come! Great for any classroom setting.

Have your students build on their compare/contrast writing skills. This writing assignment is focused on comparing remote learning and in person learning. It is structured and scaffolded with graphic organizers.

Journal writing activity based on Thanksgiving traditions and reflection. This activity allows for brainstorming, structured writing, and an editing/revising process. It is a great activity/ lesson for students around the Thanksgiving holiday!

This is a writing activity that can be used at the beginning of the school year to help get to know your new students! Included, there is a template which can be edited to your liking, so that you can add in any questions you might like to ask your class. This can be a great activity for all ages!

This is a fun journal writing activity for students of any age! The graphic organizers included break-down the activity into three different parts in order to help build on each skill (ie. brainstorming, drafting complete sentences, building each paragraph). This activity can be used to work on skills like writing a complete paragraph, writing multiple paragraphs on a given topic, and editing/revising.

A fun superhero journal writing activity to help with skills such as creative writing, paragraph structure, and writing multiple paragraphs on a given topic! This can be used over multiple writing lessons (ie. writing a claim, topic sentences, supporting details, concluding sentence, editing/revising).