ClassFlow
Class Flow: Smart Money Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Smart Money poem is used to introduce and reinforce counting money.
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PBS
Pbs Mathline: Money Counts Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Play the Money Exchange Game to count and compare the different amounts of money. Printable lesson.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Fractions of Time and Money
People talk about quarters of the hour, or quarters in a dollar. This lesson lets students in on what that means.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Show Me the Money
For this lesson, young scholars identify coins, describe their attributes, learn their value, and count like coins. Students view an interactive web lesson that provides practice. Concepts are taught using songs, poems and games. This...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Money Counts [Pdf]
This PBS lesson plan features an assortment of interactive learning activities on number sense and computation that conform to NCTM standards. You get a list of materials, activity worksheets, related resources, and extension activities....
Other
Nearpod: Word Problems: Money
For this lesson on money word problems, 2nd graders learn about the different coins, explore skip counting on number lines, and apply their learning to a real-world scenario.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Changes in Change
This lesson 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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants and the Math Challenge
In this lesson, students create and solve a word problem related to counting money, develop a script for a short scene, and perform it using the elements of performance. Teacher resources are provided.
Other
Pbs: Grocery Store, Making Change
This grocery store lesson plan will help your students understand the process of making change with real-life examples. Try adapting this Ohio State Standard based lesson to your state standards.
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: Adding and Subtracting With Decimals
Sixth graders fluently add and subtract money with decimals using the standard algorithm.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Smiley Faces and Up
Automaticity with patterns that allow students to easily manipulate larger numbers is the aim of this lesson.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Cheerful Shoppers
Second graders love to shop! Students will use their own shopping list to compose a word problem using addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, in order to help them better understand how to problem solve.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Too Much Noise
Students count and add coins to determine the fewest number needed to produce a given amount.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 2
Browse resources related to second-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: How Much Money Do You Have
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart every page has a different total value of currency. Students can practice counting money. This flipchart can be used to add to your currency lesson or used as a center.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Dollars
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count currency to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Count How Much Money You Have
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart makes a great center or an addition to your money lesson. Students work in pairs or groups. One student drags an amount of money out for their partner and the partner counts the total.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars
In this instructional activity, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Math Bargains
Students use real coins to explore and solve problems involving the purchase of items.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Making Change
Second graders count by 5s, 10s and 25s to add money amounts and make change.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: It Is About Time
Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Foundational Math Concepts for Elementary Ages
Practice everyday math skills such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, place value, counting money, telling time, fractions, decimals, and more.