Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Estimating and Counting Money
The purpose of this lesson from the Illinois Institute of Technology is to review estimating and rounding to the nearest dollar as well as gain skills and practice in counting money. The students will define the meaning of estimate and...
Better Lesson
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Changes in Change
This lesson plan begins with students visiting one web resource that gives them practice in counting money. The second resource goes one step further in that students are given opportunities to make change for make-believe purchases.
Better Lesson
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.
Purple Math
Purplemath: "Coin" Word Problems
This site demonstrates how to solve 'coin' word problems, given relationships between the types of coins.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Identifying Tens and Ones
Second graders will be given set amount of money to add, and identify how many tens and ones.