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Counting Money and Making Change
Students count collections of coins and one-dollar bills. They solve problems and learn to use the dollar sign ($) with the decimal point to represent money amounts. This lesson is important as a foundation for future math concepts in...
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Money in Action
Students become familiar with the various coins in our money system as well as amount of each coin. They help develop their ability to count change and find different ways to show equal amounts.
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Show Me The Money
Third graders explore the value of U.S. money. In this money lesson plan, 3rd graders print out pictures of money from the Internet and create play money. The students will play a game in which they display the amount of money called out...
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Shop till You Drop! Working with Money
Paper and coin currency are shown and reviewed, and then used to apply consumer math skills. Learners are given two examples of how they should line up decimal points and place values when adding or subtracting money. They watch as the...
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Recognizing Coins
Help your class identify the different pence and pounds used in Great Britain. Each slide contains an image, the name, and value of British coinage. Great if you're teaching in Britain, if you want to extend your American class's...
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Coin Value Worksheet
In this coins worksheet, students write the value of each coin shown to them. Students write the value of 7 coins total on this worksheet.
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Four Famous Faces
Each one of our quarters is embellished with a famous face or image representing the state it came from. This lesson uses South Dakota's state quarter to get kids thinking about monetary value, what the president of the United States...
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Reviewing Money
Young scholars review the concepts on money. In this consumer math lesson, students review the vocabulary and value of each coin. Young scholars are shown coins and identify each one's name and value. Students take an included test on...
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Coin Comparison Worksheet
Use this one-page worksheet to assess young learners’ ability to correctly compare a series of coins. Each problem asks counters to indicate with the correct symbol whether the total value of the coins in the left column is greater than,...
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Count On It!
Students investigate money. In this consumer math lesson, students use coins, identify their value, then group them in various ways to equal a dollar.
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Money Bags
First graders identify coins and their value. Using a mixed set of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, they sort the coins and identify the name of each coin and the value of one coin in each set. As the teacher announces a given...
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Matching Coins and Amounts
Students recognize coins and understand their values. In this coins lesson, students identify sets of coins and match them with their value.
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Value of Money
Second graders examine a collection of coins to discover their value. In this value of money lesson, 2nd graders identify the amount of money represented by each coin. Students use a worksheet to complete story problems involving...
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Coins Values
In this early childhood problem solving worksheet, students read 6 statements and then identify the coin that matches the information provided in each statement.
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Making Sense of Dollars and Cents
Teaching the money system to youngsters through games, literature, and real-world simulations
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Quarter, Nickel, Dime....
An engaging game called, "Quarter, Nickel, and Dime" is presented in this math lesson. Players are given an envelope with slips of paper that represent the three coins. In pairs, they play the game 18 times, and the whole class charts...
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Saving Money
After listening to the wonderful book, A Chair for my Mother, young mathematicians engage in an awesome lesson about coins and the value of saving money. The lesson is done in a classic style - everything is beautifully organized, and...
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Same Amount Different Pigs
In this money worksheet, students solve 4 problems where they draw combinations of coins in a piggy bank, to show 4 different ways to make a total coin value of 38 cents.
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Coins - Totaling Coin Value
In this money activity, 2nd graders find the total number of the coins shown in 4 rows by writing the value of each coin and adding them together. They find the values using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
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Grocery Shopping Trip - Coin Values
In this coin value matching worksheet, students cut out pictures of coins that show the monetary amounts on them. They place the coins on the worksheet to show what is needed to pay for each grocery item.
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Right on the Money
Students are introduced to coins and bills in American currency. After watching a video, they practice making the same amount of money out of different combinations of coins and bills. Using the internet, they discover how much each...
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Act it Out
In this money worksheet, students solve 5 word problems where they are given an amount of money in written form and make a list to help organize the information in order to add the coin values. Students make change in 4 of the problems.
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Battle of "The Cents"
Students explore money. In this counting money lesson, students play a card game using the rules of "War." Students turn over cards, determine the money value represented, and the student with the highest value keeps the cards.
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Money Amounts to fifty Cents
In this recognizing coin values worksheet, students count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to fifty cents. Students solve 10 problems.