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Fritter the Thrifty Pooch demonstrates to young financiers that saving a little money at a time can add up to big goals in the future. Learning the difference between “wants” and “needs” helps students understand that some things are worth the financial wait while others are not. While discovering how dollars and cents can grow, students practice reading and writing money amounts and develop skills that will help them understand how money can work for them. Time to start saving!
In this issue students will:
- Practice reading and writing dollar and cents amounts
- Convert written amounts into numbers
- Spell mixed up money words correctly
- Word hunt other names for money
- Critically think about and discover missing digits to solve money math
- Use mathematical reasoning to divide a set of bills into equal amounts
- Use the newspaper to locate money amounts
- Compare using greater than, less than, equal to
- Write creatively about starting a business
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