These printable blank checks offer a format for your students to practice writing checks.

These study guides prepare students for tests in Consumer Math by Bob Jones University Press.

These two documents provide modified instructions for a quiz in chapter 4 and a test in chapter 5.

This series of documents offers extra practice for students studying Consumer Math from Bob Jones University Press. Note that these materials were written for the 2nd edition of Consumer Math. The correlation with other editions may vary.

This series of documents captures a teacher's notes on teaching Consumer Math from Bob Jones University Press. Topics include notes to students, exercises to assign and skip, and helpful notes regarding the text.

Note that these materials were written for the 2nd edition of Consumer Math. The correlation with other editions may vary.

Stories are great for teaching academic lessons, spiritual lessons, and life lessons. Tell the story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” to teach about telling the truth and what happens when someone is lying. Relate experiences from your life to teach lessons about living wisely. Refer to Bible stories to strengthen a point. Find stories in books or story collections. Use fables to present lessons.

Stories engage people and capture their attention. Notice how everyone perks up when the minister announces he will be telling a story. Students who are fidgety will settle and relax as they listen to your stories.

I like to tell stories from my experiences and share how God has answered prayer and to show how God is faithful. I enjoy incorporating stories in different subjects – I tell a story about a monkey for our skip counting lessons. I may make up a story about the class and include the students in it. Some stories are for enjoyment, while others teach lessons, or expand on a point.

Here are a few stories as examples.

On the importance of telling the truth

One summer when I was in high school, I was cleaning house for a neighbor. The first time I was there, she asked if I like iced tea. I do not care for iced tea, but I was so hot and had been working hard and was thirsty, so I said, “Yes.” She brought me a big glass of iced tea! I had to drink it because I had said I liked it. After that, nearly every week when I was cleaning for her, she gave me a big glass of iced tea, and I always had to drink it. I never did learn to like iced tea, but I did learn an important lesson: tell the truth!

On working diligently and honestly

When I was little, a tornado blew our barn down. After that, Dad was making yard in that area. There were lots and lots of rocks! Dad would park his trailer there and we would take our little buckets, fill them with rocks, and dump them in the trailer. We would also pick up rocks in the garden.  Sometimes we just had to pick up rocks because that was part of our job as a member of the family. Sometimes there were incentives for our work. We were delighted one time when Mom promised us Pop Tarts after we picked up rocks! I especially remember the time when we were going to be paid for each bucket of rocks we filled. My brother picked up many buckets of rocks, because he only emptied about half of the rocks out each time he went to the trailer. So he filled his bucket, went to the trailer, dumped out about half the rocks, went and filled the bucket again, dumped out about half the rocks, and so he got paid for quite a few bucketsful! He eventually felt guilty for cheating and confessed.

On being responsible

When I was young, I was to take table scraps out to the dog. This food was in the big roasting pan. I took the dog her treat, but I didn’t feel like going back in the house then, so I just set the pan on the back porch by the door. I went to play and didn’t think anything more about the pan. After a while, my Dad came out of the house, not knowing there was a roasting pan setting in front of the door. He stepped in the pan, lost his balance and fell down the steps, landing on the grass beside the well. He just laid there, stunned, for a bit. I saw it happen and was very worried. I thought he was dead! He got up after a bit, and hobbled away, but he was okay.

A history lesson

After World War 2 there were many displaced German families. People in the United States could sponsor German families to come to America and provide housing and jobs for them. There was a Mennonite family in Pennsylvania who sponsored a German family to come. They found a place for them to live and a job for the father. Soon after the German family arrived, the Mennonite family invited them to go to church with them during their revival meetings. The German family agreed and attended one evening.

When the visiting minister got up to preach, the German father became very upset. He stood up and began yelling, “SS! SS! SS!” He was quite worked up. They got him settled, and later he talked about this man whom he had seen in Germany. (Explain a bit about the SS – Secret Service.) They found out some information on the minister, who had indeed been a part of the SS, but had become a believer, was forgiven for the horrors of the SS, and now was following God and preaching.

Like I said, this story really did happen in Pennsylvania. It happened in southeastern Pennsylvania, in a church near Lititz, called the Hess Mennonite Church. The former Hess Mennonite Church meetinghouse is now the Lititz Dunkard Brethren Church, which is where I go!

We all have stories to tell and stories make our lessons easy to remember!

Music is a whole lot more than just singing and learning notes and all of that. It is more of a whole body experience, and it involves thinking and internalizing and just creativity in general. And so I've just learned a lot more about how to be creative and try new things with songs and try to help my students come to that place where they can be creative.

And singing doesn't need to be just a boring exercise. It can be something they can make up. It can be something they can do, not just in singing time or in music class; it can be done in history class. It could be done in math class, if necessary, or when you're walking down the hall.

I just want it to be a kind of exercise where they can feel free to sing, and it doesn't need to be an embarrassing sort of thing or anything like that. It's something to do, or that's something that should come easily and naturally. And so that's something I've learned through this curriculum. It's just to think out of the box and sing out of the box.

I stole the idea from another school. We have been already singing for many years, singing about memory. And what I did in years past is that I made up songs to find verses, and it was causing a lack of sleep and sorts of things like that. And so I knew that wasn't sustainable, so I have been looking or wishing for just either a curriculum or some sort of just a Bible, a bunch of Bible verses set to music that had already been made by other people. And so I did find something like that. It's a little booklet of portions from Psalm 119. I think it's the full chapter of Psalm 119, just in little eight verse sections. And it's a little booklet that is you can copy it and you can also copy the CD that accompanies it. It was put together by�I don't remember for sure who it was that put it together�but it is very handy to be able to stick it in the player, and play the song for them, and then once they've learned it, they can sing it on their own. The booklet has music with it. It is just put to sheet music, and so it's just very simple to get that out every morning and to sing. It doesn't take any extra work for me. And so that's very, very nice. It's a good way to remember Bible verses. It's just to sing them. It seems like it sticks a lot longer than if they just recited.

The text of Psalm 119:161-168, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Princes have persecuted me without a cause: But my heart standeth in awe of thy word. I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil. I hate and abhor lying: But thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee Because of thy righteous judgments. Great peace have they which love thy law: And nothing shall offend them. Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, And done thy

The text of Psalm 119:169-176, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: Give me understanding according to thy word. Let my supplication come before thee: Deliver me according to thy word. My lips shall utter praise, When thou hast taught me thy statutes. My tongue shall speak of thy word: For all thy commandments are righteousness. Let thine hand help me; For I have chosen thy precepts. I have longed for thy

The text of Psalm 119:41-48, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, Even thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: For I trust in thy word. And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; For I have hoped in thy judgments. So shall I keep thy law continually For ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty: For I seek thy precepts. I will speak o

The text of Psalm 119:153-160, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: For I do not forget thy law. Plead my cause, and deliver me: Quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far from the wicked: For they seek not thy statutes. Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: Quicken me according to thy judgments. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the trans

The text of Psalm 119:89-96, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: For ever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: For all are thy servants. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: For with them thou hast quickened me. I am thi

The text of Psalm 119:49-56, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Remember the word unto thy servant, Upon which thou hast caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction: For thy word hath quickened me. The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not declined from thy law. I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; And have comforted myself. Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked That forsake thy law. Thy statutes h

The text of Psalm 119:73-80, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; Because I have hoped in thy word. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, And that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, According to thy word unto thy servant. Let thy

The text of Psalm 119:121-128, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: I have done judgment and justice: Leave me not to mine oppressors. Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for the word of thy righteousness. Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, And teach me thy statutes. I am thy servant; give me understanding, That I may know thy testimonies. It is time for thee, Lord, t

The text of Psalm 119:97-104, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: For they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: For thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might keep thy word. I have

The text of Psalm 119:105-112, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light unto my path. I have sworn, and I will perform it, That I will keep thy righteous judgments. I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word. Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, And teach me thy judgments. My soul is continually in my hand: Yet do I not forget thy law. The wicked hav

The text of Psalm 119:57-64, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words. I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: Be merciful unto me according to thy word. I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste, and delayed not To keep thy commandments. The bands of the wicked have robbed me: But I have not forgotten thy law. At midnight I will rise to give tha

The text of Psalm 119:81-88, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: My soul fainteth for thy salvation: But I hope in thy word. Mine eyes fail for thy word, Saying, When wilt thou comfort me? For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes. How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? The proud have digged pits for me, Which are not after thy law. All thy commandments a

The text of Psalm 119:1-8, sung acapella. The arrangement is by Michael Owens and Frederick Steinruck. The text: Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, And that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: They walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us To keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed To keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, When I have respect unto all thy commandments.