FOURTH GRADE
4TH SIX WEEKS
SKILLS
TEKS
2D, 2H
4G, 5B
9A, 9B, 10A, 10B
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Week 1 Personal Financial Literacy
Materials:
Blackline Masters: Skills 1, 2, 3, 4 (2 pages), 1 per student
Teacher Copies:
Skills 4
Pencils
Paper
The amount of money needed to pay for or buy something.
Expenses:
Expenses that are paid on a regular basis as a fixed amount (amount does not
Fixed
Expenses: change) such as rent, mortgages, car payment, insurance, etc.
Variable Expenses that do not have a fixed amount (amount paid changes) such as
Expenses: gasoline, groceries, clothing, entertainment, etc.
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When selling an item or service, the amount of money left from the total
received after all expenses have been paid.
Earn:
To obtain money in return for work we do or services we provide.
Income:
The payment (money) people receive for providing work or labor.
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Skills 1
Defining Expenses
After reviewing each vocabulary term with students, create a web diagram and write the word
expenses in the center as shown.
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Review the definition of expenses.
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Say: As adults we have expenses that we need to pay for on a regular basis. Some are fixed (ex.
Mortgages) and others are variable (ex. Groceries)
Have students fill in the web diagram by deciding which expenses their family (or themselves)
may have on a weekly/monthly basis.
3.
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Have students work in small groups.
Assign each group a word from the list of financial terms.
Have them complete Skills 1, using their assigned vocabulary word.
Skills 2
Expenses Practice
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Independent Practice 1- 5
Fixed Expenses:
Variable Expenses:
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House payment, car payment, car insurance, college loan payment.
Clothing, groceries, utilities, movie tickets, eating out, gasoline.
Fixed Expenses:
total spent - $1,536
Variable Expenses: total spent - $685
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$419
Responses may vary, must come from variable expenses such as entertainment.
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The table below shows Mr. and Mrs. Sutton’s expenses for the month of May. Use this information to
complete the questions that follow.
Clothing
$125
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House
$865
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Groceries
$195
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Car payment
$340
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Car insurance (monthly)
$95
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Utilities (electricity, water)
$130
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Movie Tickets
$45
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College loan payment
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$200
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Cell phone bill (monthly)
$36
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Eating at a restaurant
$75
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Gasoline
$115
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List each of the Sutton’s expenses under the correct category. Ask yourself, is it an expense they pay
regularly that does not change (fixed) or is it an expense that changes (variable expense).
Fixed Expenses
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Variable Expenses
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Week 4 Data Analysis/ Graphs
Materials:
Blackline Masters: Skills 13, 14, 16, 1 per student
Teacher Copies:
Pencils
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Skills 13
Dot Plot - Length of Bows
Direct Teach
Using the data from the dot plot have students
create a frequency table in the space provided
on Skills 13.
Key
(Sample)
Frequency
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Length
5.0
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7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
Independent Practice 1- 4
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Spinner
Results 3
Numbers (Frequency)
1
2
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5
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Teachers may want to use this time to assist students
in need of remediation.
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Skills 14
Dot Plot Practice
Independent Practice 1 - 4 Spinner Results
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Tamara made the dot plot below to show the length of the bows she had in a drawer.
How many bows did Tamara count in her drawer? _______________
2.
How many bows were six and one-half centimeters or shorter? _________________
3.
After she completed the dot plot, she found a twelfth bow. The bow she found is modeled below. Use a ruler to
measure the length of the bow to the nearest 0.5 centimeter.
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If the data for the twelfth bow is added to the line plot, which statement would be true?
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Exactly
of the bows have a length that is greater than 6.5 centimeters.
For every bow that is 6.5 centimeters long, there are 2 bows that are 8.0 centimeters long.
Exactly
of the bows have a length that is less than 7.5 centimeters.
For every bow that is 5.5 centimeters long, there are 2 bows that are 9.0 centimeters long.
After Tamara added the data of the 12th bow to the dot plot, what fraction of the total bows were 8.0
centimeters or longer?
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Skills 14
Sergio made a dot plot to show the results of the number of spins on a spinner with the numbers 1-7 on it.
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Number 7 was selected as many times as Number 3.
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For every time the spinner selected Number 2, the Number 5 was selected 4 times.
Use the data from the dot plot to create a frequency table.
Spinner Number
Results (Frequency)
2.
Which number was spun twice as many times as the number 4? ___________________
3.
How many times did Sergio spin the spinner, according to the data? _________________
4. Sergio spun the spinner 1 more time, and it stopped on 3. If he added the result of his spin to his dot plot,
which statement would NOT be true?
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The results for Number 1 and Number 6 were equal.
The number 7 was selected three times more than the number 6.
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