Other
Oanda: Currency Converter
A site that converts one country's currency to its value in another country's currency. Values may be compared from 1990 to the present. It may be viewed in several languages including Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.
Other
Study Finance: Time Value of Money
This resource presents brief explanations of topics related to interest, compound interest, and the time value of money.
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: My Money
A PDF student workbook to teach elementary students about money, including values of coins, opportunity costs, and goods and services.
Other
Washington State Department of Financial Institutions: Right on the Money
[PDF] Booklet provides practical advice on topics such as banking, creating a spending plan, and finding college money.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 5: Adjusting Nominal Values to Real Values
By the end of this section, you will be able to contrast nominal GDP and real GDP, explain the GDP deflator, and calculate real GDP based on nominal GDP values.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Money Is What Money Does
Throughout history, a wide variety of items have served as money. These include gold, silver, large stone wheels, tobacco, beer, dog teeth, porpoise teeth, cattle, metal coins, paper bills, and checks. All of these types of money should...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Writing the Value of the Money in Each Purse
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice looking at a picture of a purse and determining the total value of money in the purse.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Place Value Problems Involving Money
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice solving word problems involving money.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Is Money? Why Does It Have Value?
In this instructional activity, learners consider the fact that the value of money differs depending on where the money is being spent. In order to understand this idea, students will first develop a deeper understanding of what it means...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Changing Face of Money
In this lesson, students play a game to guess which objects have been used as money throughout history. In the process, they learn several basic economic concepts. For instance, money must be a unit of account, meaning that it must be...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Doug Levinson: What Gives a Dollar Bill Its Value?
The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that decision, and how does their choice affect the economy at large? Doug Levinson takes a trip into the United States Federal Reserve,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Count Money (u.s.)
Find the total value when given an amount of coins or dollars. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: More Dimes and Dollars
Second graders need practice using coins and dollars and relating them to ones, tens and hundreds. Common Core standards include counting by 10s and 100s.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Hundreds, Tens, Ones Are Coins Too
Second graders will extend their understanding of hundreds, tens and ones using dollars, dimes and pennies as another way to express groups of 100, 10 and 1.
Other
Fayette County Public Schools Curriculum: Counting Money
This site has a review of current U.S. coin values.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Learning Coins
Explore a tutorial to learning facts about the coins and their value then play a game to sort the coins by value.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Coins for Candy
An interactive lesson helps students identify, compare, and learn the value of coins including pennies, nickels, and dimes.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Peter Pig's Money Counter
Interactive learning game in which students gain practical skills in financial literacy by learning how to identify and count coins. Students choose one of three levels of difficulty.
Social Studies Help Center
Social Studies Help Center: What Is Money?
Introduction explains what money is. This is followed by a brief history of commodity money and fiat money. Finally, this site explains the essential functions and characteristics of money.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Let's Find Out About Money
In this multisensory lesson, students will learn the characteristics of each coin (penny, nickel, dime and quarter) and the value for each type of coin. Students will learn record observational data, learn a song, recite a poem, and play...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 1: Money Basics
Why do we use money? Learn why we need money and to identify bills and coins.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Show Me the Money
In this lesson, students identify coins, describe their attributes, learn their value, and count like coins. Students view an interactive web lesson that provides practice. Concepts are taught using songs, poems and games. This lesson...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Dojo: Money
Students will play learning games to explore money in different ways, such as identifying, adding, and subtracting values.