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• March 28, 2025

  Budgets: Math for life

  

  Students will use math skills to create a budget for a class event or activity.

  Content type(s): Lesson plans Subject(s): Financial literacy, Math Grade level(s): Grade 04, Grade 05, Grade 06
• March 17, 2025

  Global Money Week

  

  Check out our elementary and secondary resources.
• March 3, 2025

  March Break at the Museum

  

  Share part of your March Break with us at the Museum. Drop in for free family activities about counterfeiting and how our bank notes are designed to prevent it or check out our online activities.
• February 26, 2025

  New acquisitions—2024 edition

  By: David Bergeron, Krista Broeckx

  
  

  

  Bank of Canada Museum’s acquisitions in 2024 highlight the relationships that shape the National Currency Collection.

  Content type(s): Blog posts
• February 11, 2025

  Money’s metaphors

  By: Phillipe Audet-Cayer, Graham Iddon, Patricia Marando

  
  

  

  Buck, broke, greenback, loonie, toonie, dough, flush, gravy train, born with a silver spoon in your mouth… No matter how common the expression for money, many of us haven’t the faintest idea where these terms come from.

  Content type(s): Blog posts
• January 22, 2025

  Value for money: Determining unit price

  

  Grade 4 students will learn how to calculate a product’s unit price and total cost and determine if something is a real deal.

  Content type(s): Lesson plans Subject(s): Financial literacy, Math Grade level(s): Grade 04