Three Words for Hard Times is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on inflation, deflation and unemployment, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.11.3-5. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 18 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Three Words for Hard Times
D2.Eco.11.3-5
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Sort each one into the right word.
1.Sort each one: Inflation or Deflation or Unemployment?
Sort: The same wage buys less bread, The same coin buys more coal than before, An upland labourer with no farm to work on
InflationDeflationUnemployment
2.Sort each one: Inflation or Deflation or Unemployment?
Sort: Cloth sells for less than it did, Prices climb month after month, Men waiting at the mill gate for work
InflationDeflationUnemployment
3.Sort each one: Inflation or Deflation or Unemployment?
Sort: Rents rise across the mill district, A weaver with a loom and no orders, Shippers cut freight rates year on year
InflationDeflationUnemployment
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.11.3-5 · Set 18 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Three Words for Hard Times
Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. An upland labourer with no farm to work on — Unemployment 2. The same coin buys more coal than before — Deflation 3. The same wage buys less bread — Inflation
2.1. Cloth sells for less than it did — Deflation 2. Men waiting at the mill gate for work — Unemployment 3. Prices climb month after month — Inflation
3.1. A weaver with a loom and no orders — Unemployment 2. Rents rise across the mill district — Inflation 3. Shippers cut freight rates year on year — Deflation
More practice for D2.Eco.11.3-5
Explain what inflation, deflation and unemployment mean.
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