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Help the Leprechaun Pick the Right Coins
In this counting coins worksheet, students solve 10 problems in which they paste coins in the space next to an amount of money to show that value. All amounts are under one dollar.
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Create and Solve
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students use problem solving skills to solve 6 story problems that require them to count coins.
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Money to 50 Cents
In this counting coins worksheet, students solve 20 problems in which nickels, dimes and pennies are counted. Students record the total. All sums are below 50 cents.
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Nickels and Pennies
In this counting money learning exercise, students study the illustrated coin pictures and then find the value of the coins. Students write the values on the lines.
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Pennies, Nickels, and Quarters: Missing Values
In this counting coins worksheet, students use their subtraction skills to solve 6 problems that require them to fill in the missing values.
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Nickels and Pennies
In this learning exercise about money, 2nd graders practice counting money using nickels and pennies. Students look at a picture on the learning exercise of a penny and a nickel showing how many of each and also as a representation in a...
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How Much? challenge
In this counting money worksheet, students count coins to show prices of objects, draw the coins, identify the amount that is less, and show the price with the fewer coins. Students solve three problems.
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Money: Count Pennies, Save a Dollar
Students determine how to make the largest sum of money using the least amount of coins. In this mixed currency instructional activity, students listen to a reading of If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz before participating in...
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Shopping for Candy
Students explore counting money. In this money counting and gingerbread house construction lesson, students use a calculator to determine how much and what type of candy they can buy given 25 cents. Students construct gingerbread...
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Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. For this money lesson, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets...
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Battle of "The Cents"
Learners explore money. In this counting money lesson, students play a card game using the rules of "War." Learners turn over cards, determine the money value represented, and the student with the highest value keeps the cards.
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Let's Go Shopping challenge
In this choosing items to purchase and counting coins worksheet, students circle two items in each set to purchase and use the price tags to circle the total coins needed. Students solve three problems.
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Word Problems: Money
In this counting coins to solve word problems worksheet, students read the quantity of coins each person has, draw the coins, and total the amounts. Students solve 6 problems.
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Money Amounts
In this counting coins activity, students add pennies, nickels, and dimes to fifty cents. Students solve 10 money problems.
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Scarcity and Choice
After reading the book A Bargain for Frances, young economists discuss how money is exchanged for goods or services. They demonstrate effective financial decision-making by listing ways to save money for a product they would like to buy.
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Model Counting Pennies and Nickels
First graders provide monetary value of coins. In this counting pennies and nickels lesson, 1st graders practice counting money with a partner.
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Money
In this counting change worksheet, students look at 7 rows of various coins and then add up each row of coins. Students put their total amounts on the lines at the end of each row.
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Comparing Coins
In this counting coins worksheet, students count the total amount of money in two sets of coins and record how much is in each set. Students circle the set that has the greater amount.
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Add and Subtract Money
In this counting money worksheet, students solve the six word problems by adding or subtracting the money word problems. Students solve six word problems.
Busy Teacher’s Café
"Smart" by Shel Silverstein
Find out just how smart your young mathematicians are with this cross-curricular math and language arts lesson. After first reading Shel Silverstein's poem "Smart", students draw pictures of coins to model the different exchanges...
Federal Reserve Bank
The Case of the Shrunken Allowance
An allowance is an important thing! Make sure your kids know how to save and spend their own money. Using the book The Case of the Shrunken Allowance as a starting point, this plan covers income, spending and saving, counting, and more.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Assessment for the California Mathematics Standards Grade 1
Here is an assessment designed to test mathematicians' knowledge of writing numbers, comparing numbers, skip counting, solving addition and subtraction problems; along with measuring objects, telling time, identifying shapes, reading...
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Assessment for the California Mathematics Standards Grade 3
Assess scholars' knowledge with a 22-page assessment that covers place value, patterns, probability, estimation, measurement, geometric figures; and their ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide proficiently.
Perkins School for the Blind
Counting Cups
Teach one-to-one correspondence, fine motor, and counting skills to your learners with visual disabilities. Included are a set of activity suggestions, which are useful when teaching a variety of different early math skills. Braille,...