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Working With Coins
Students arrange coins based on their value. In this coins lesson, students trace and record the value of each coin. Students count up to find the total value of all the coins.
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Making $ents
Second graders complete several activities that give them opportunities to practice and model strategies that help them count money. They read The Penny Pot storybook; they play a trading game with various coins. They participate in a...
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Money Matters
Learners practice spending money by completing math word sentences. For this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money. Learners...
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The Price is Right, So Let's Make Change
Students estimate, calculate, and count back the amount of change needed from purchases made during small group activities.
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Math/Technology: Coin Combos
Second graders identify coin combinations needed to purchase items under a dollar. Using Kidspiration, they demonstrate three ways to purchase a pizza slice for 96 cents and choose an item which cost less than a dollar for other to...
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Money
Young scholars use play coins to solve problems. They imagine that someone handed them two coins. One is a quater and one is a dime. Students are asked by feeling the shapes of the coins, how could they tell which one was the quater?...
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Matching Pairs
Learners take turns matching the appropriate shapes (listing coin values) to those with numerical values listed on them. When pupils are successful, they win a blank shape for their collection.
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Money and Coins
In this coins worksheet, learners review and count four different types of coins: penny, dime, nickel and quarter. Students view the word name, cent number and actual dollar sign for each denomination.
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Stamping Coins
Learners demonstrate that they can use a variety of coin combinations to make a single amount. They study all the ways to make 50 cents using coins using different coins.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-If You Made A Million
Students read If You Made A Million by David M. Schwartz. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of earning, saving and spending money. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social...
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Buggin' Out (Identifying and Adding Amounts of Money)
Students explore consumer math by participating in estimate exercises. In this currency lesson, students identify and define each piece of U.S. currency and their value to the monetary system. Students complete several money worksheets...
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The Quarter Fold
Little ones identify the US quarter and explore the concept of one-fourth or one-quarter. Using real coins or coin manipulatives, they divide a square piece of paper into quarters, discuss halves and quarters, and create a design that...
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Adding and Subtracting Money
Students investigate U.S. currency by pretending to buy food. In this money lesson plan, students discover the vocabulary and value for each U.S. coin, then add the amounts in dollars and cents of food items they wish to purchase....
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Money Lessons That Cash In
Every child is fascinated by money. Teachers can use money lessons that expand on this inherent interest.
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Alexander Used to Be Rich
Reading Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, launches this instructional activity appropriate for children who recognize coins and have been introduced to coin values. Using addition and subtraction skills, the class tracks...
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Write Your Own Word Problem!
These addition word problems are written out in boxes that lend themselves to laminating and cutting out for a math station. There are 8 scenarios in all, each with an image and prompting learners to use the single-digit information to...
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Graphs that Represent Data Sets
These four scenarios all contain graphable data; can scholars match them to the correct bar graphs? All the data is in single-digit whole numbers. Some of the scenarios instruct kids to make a graph, while others don't. Clarify...
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Place Value: Making Change with Canadian Money
In this place value: making change with Canadian money worksheet, students use a spreadsheet and certain coins to practice and record how much change would be given from a $5 bill. A parent or tutor adjusts the questions to the child's...
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Pocket Change
Students practice identifying coins and their values. In this money identification instructional activity, students play a game, where they toll a coin, determine the value, and compare totals to win.
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Sort and Graph Coins
In this sorting and graphing practice learning exercise, students cut out the coin pictures, glue 1 in each of 4 columns, and color in the graph with the correct number of each of the coins shown.
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Word Problem Practice
In this word problem worksheet, students complete a set of 6 word problems that use various concepts. A reference web site is included for additional activities.
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Max's Math Adventures: Beekman's Ice Cream Shop
In this math worksheet, students read a rhyming poem, take notes in a provided space, then solve a coin puzzle problem based on information given in the poem.