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Penny Pinchers

For Teachers K
Students, by participating in a classroom toy store, are introduced to the penny.
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Coin Hunt and It's Variations

For Teachers K
Students play a game designed to give them practice identifying coin names and values. They form two lines with coins spread out in between the teams and when the teacher calls out a coin, the two in front scramble to find the specified...
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Count And Add Nickels

For Teachers 1st
This math lesson focuses on coins - specifically the nickel. Students use plastic nickles in order to gain practice counting by fives, and adding amounts of cents. Students complete a worksheet where they tally up different amounts of...
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Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins instructional activity, students identify the coins in the 5 sets of problems. Students then count up the pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total value of money.
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Value of Money

For Teachers 2nd
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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Illustrative Mathematics

Coins in a Circular Pattern

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
What starts as a basic question of division and remainders quickly turns abstract in this question of related ratios and radii. The class works to surround a central coin with coins of the same and different values, then develops a...
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US Mint

Coin Connections

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Help young mathematicians make cents out of the US currency system with this two-part math lesson. Children first learn the names and values for each type of coin, before learning to count and compare the values of coins using the...
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August House

The Magic Pot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The Magic Pot by Patricia Coombs is the theme of this multidisciplinary lesson plan. Early readers first take part in a read aloud and grand conversation about the story's details. Then, they get to work practicing their skills in...
Printables
Virginia Department of Education

Mathematics Vocabulary Cards - Grade 2

For Teachers 2nd
Augment your math curriculum with posters detailing several concepts important to second grade math. Each poster features one math term from geometry, measurement, probability and statistics, computation and estimation, numbers and...
Worksheet
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How Much Money Do I Have?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins instructional activity, students solve 4 problems in which a set of coins is counted. Students write the total value of the set of coins. Included on this page are pennies, nickels and dimes only.
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Count the Change

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money worksheet, students study the coins in each set that includes quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. Students write the total amount for each box.
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Math Challenge

For Students 2nd
In this money worksheet, 2nd graders count coins. Students study quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies and write the amount show for 6 problems.
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Smart- Counting Coins

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover the name and value of coins. In this counting money lesson, students identify heads and tails of coins and the value of each coin. Students visit websites and play games. Students then write a poem about money.
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Oh, Yes!

For Students K - 1st
In this math learning exercise, students sing a song called "Oh, Yes!" to the tune of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." The song describes how much a pennies, nickels, and dimes are worth.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

How Many Ways?

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students estimate the amount of money they have in groups of pennies, nickels, and dimes. In this money lesson plan, students then count up the amounts they have and exchange money amounts.
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Technology - money

For Teachers 1st
First graders trade coin amounts by using punch out coins. In this trading coins lesson plan, 1st graders use pennies, nickels, and dimes, and then trade them with each other in equivalent amounts. Students also complete money computer...
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Show Me the Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the monetary value of a penny, nickel, and dime. They simulate a candy store by calculating the proper amount of money needed to purchase candy. After viewing a video, they complete the "Handful of Coins" pictograph .
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Counting Coins to 50 Cents

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins activity, students solve 20 problems in which dimes and nickels and pennies are counted and the total calculated. All totals are under 50 cents.
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Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this filling in the blanks with missing values of coins instructional activity, students add designated amounts of coins and fill in the missing coins to make the total amounts. Students solve 4 problems.
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Counting Money and Making Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners 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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Savings and Budget

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the concept of developing a budget. In this financial awareness lesson plan, 2nd graders read the book The Case of the Shrunken Allowance and brainstorm ways they can save and budget money. Students create...
Interactive
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Making Change - Bills And Coins

For Students 2nd - 4th
Here is an interactive worksheet that allows learners to practice counting change with bills and coins, make change for a dollar, and practice their subtraction skills. The bills used are ones, fives, tens, twenties, and fifties. A good...
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Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars count money using only coins.  In this money instructional activity, students read Bennies Pennies, practice counting the pennies in the story and are then introduces to the different coins, penny, nickel, dime and...
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A Dollar for Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners demonstrate different ways to make a dollar. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book A Dollar for Penny and identify the value of each coin. Learners determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.

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