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LCR Math Dice Game
Students play a dice game with play money. In this dice game lesson, students use play money and move poker chips back and forth. Students practice their money math using collaborative skills. Students also roll dice to see how far they...
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Counting and Making Change
In this mathematics worksheet, students solve various counting and money problems. They identify the quarter, dime, nickel, and penny, and how much each is worth. Students also add up the totals for various combinations of the currency...
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What's Left Over?
For this mathematics worksheet, students identify and find the amount remaining after subtracting different amounts from a standard currency unit. Then they select the unit of currency and identify how to present sub-dollar amounts with...
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Show Me Economics
Pupils identify the penny as a copper coin worth 1 cent. They discover information found on the penny: President Lincoln's face, Lincoln Memorial, date, and location of minting.
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All Equivalencies-Making 25 cents
First graders manipulate pennies, nickels, and dimes to equal the value of a quarter. Students display the value of a quarter in a variety of ways. Students model ways to make 25 cents.
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Learn to Earn When You Tend to Spend
Students examine spending and earning, and calculate change up to a dollar. They view and participate in demonstrations of earning and spending math problems, complete a worksheet, and play a game in pairs that simulates banking.
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How Much is Your Name Worth?
Students identify the value of each coin type and then use a code to assign each letter of the alphabet to the value of the coins. They add coin combinations to determine the value of their name.
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The Case of the Broken Piggy Bank
Students list the value of a quarter, dime, nickel, and penny in dollar form. They find the total monetary value of a set of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. They calculate change received on a purchase.
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Why is Roosevelt on the Dime?
Students use a variety of reference resources to research the life of Franklin Roosevelt. From this research, they determine why his image was chosen to appear on the dime.
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Mixing Coins
Young scholars explore mixed (different denomination) coin sets and create different total amounts.
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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 students are successful, they win a blank shape for their collection.
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Sun Prints
Young scholars use coins to help them explore the sun as a source of renewable energy. They go outside in the sunshine and make a design by placing coins on their piece of black construction paper.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: My Money Book
Learn the names of the different coins, how people get money, and what they do with it. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Ordering Money
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students solve problems in which they are ordering 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...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Mathematics Lessons: Counting on Coins
This lesson plan for coin identification is aimed at Kindergarten and First Grade. Lots of activities, suggestions and other resources are also available.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Place Value, Comparison, Addition and Subtraction to 100
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value, comparison, addition and subtraction to 100.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Value of Coins
Use this interactive game to match the value of a coin with the name of the coin. The game lets you know when you answer an item correctly. Scroll down to view the game.
Other
Teaching Heart: Money Poems
Memorize these poems to help you remember which US coin is which, and how much each coin is worth. There are several fun poems for each coin.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Coin Identification
Two very basic coin identification activities and a teacher lesson plan are available at this website. These activities may require an explanation before primary age students can use them.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Technology and Coin Making
The Franklin Institute Online provides an easy-to-read history of the technology used to make coins down through history, including machines used today.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Show Me the Money
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews values of coins and coin combinations.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Money Dollars and Cents
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to chose the correct coins to best represent the amount given.