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My Schoolhouse: Counting Money: Coins
Interactive lesson teaches students how to count coins. Students can practice the skill and check their answers.
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Fayette County Public Schools Curriculum: Counting Money
This site has a review of current U.S. coin values.
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Better Lesson: Counting Up the Cost!
Fourth graders love to shop! In this exciting lesson, 4th graders will discover how to count money using some real world activities. This lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, printable worksheets, and a link to an online interactive...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Pennies a Little Goes a Long Way Game
Use this fun learning game in your classroom to help students understand the value of money. Groups of students will be exchanging pennies for other types of coins.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Teaching Money
This lesson plan site from A to Z Teacher Stuff focuses on students identifying coin, money values, writing amounts of money, and counting money to a specific dollar amount with at least 80% accuracy.
123 Teach Me
123 Teach Me: Money
Students will drag and drop various Spanish "money" terms with their matching pictures. English translations are listed under each picture. Audio pronunciations of the Spanish money-related terms are provided.
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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.
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Better Lesson: Fractions of Time and Money
People talk about quarters of the hour, or quarters in a dollar. This instructional activity lets students in on what that means.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energy Choices Game
Use this board game to introduce the concepts of energy use in our lives and the very real impact that personal choices can have on our energy consumption, energy bills and fuel supply. The game begins as students select cards that...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Money Practice
[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart teaches US coin names and their values. Students also practice adding up groups of coins. Every answer is self checking using the eraser tool.
University of Missouri
Wise Pockets: Personal Finance Lesson Plans, Grades 3 6
The Wise Pockets World Schoolhouse presents a dozen lesson plans based on children's books and teaching money management. All include lesson descriptions, cross-curricular connections, instructional objectives, activity sheets,...
Scholastic
Scholastic Teachers: Celebrate the 100th Day of School!
Scholastic has put together 100th day math ideas from several different teachers. Includes "zero, my hero", probability, sorting, measuring, estimating, counting, weighing, money, and other ideas for celebrating the 100th day.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Decimals
Sixth graders fluently add and subtract money with decimals using the standard algorithm.
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Better Lesson: Cheerful Shoppers
Second graders love to shop! Students will use their own shopping list to compose a word problem using addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, in order to help them better understand how to problem solve.
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Better Lesson: Making Change
Second graders count by 5s, 10s and 25s to add money amounts and make change.
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Better Lesson: It Is About Time
Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.
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Better Lesson: Smiley Faces and Up
Automaticity with patterns that allow students to easily manipulate larger numbers is the aim of this lesson.
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Better Lesson: Identifying Tens and Ones
Second graders will be given set amount of money to add, and identify how many tens and ones.