Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Making Change
Second graders count by 5s, 10s and 25s to add money amounts and make change.
Other
Nearpod: Making Change
For this lesson on making change, 2nd graders learn key vocabulary, explore skip counting on number lines, and apply their learning to a real-world scenario.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I'm Into Money!!!
Many students come to third grade needing to review and/or be retaught counting money and making change. This lesson will begin with a review of counting money. It will then introduce making change.This lesson plan was created as a...
Crayola
Crayola: Money in the Bank
Young bankers and storekeepers practice counting money and making change. They keep their money in this recycled-box bank.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Change Due
This lesson explains what making change is, contains a game and other resources to help you practice this important skill.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Consumer Math
From basics such as adding and subtracting money, converting coins, and making change to more advanced topics such as sales tax and simple interest, this interactive tutorial offers help with consumer math issues.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Subtraction With Money
These interactive games will explore hexagons, counting, making change, and sorting objects.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Change Due
Students can practice counting change in a series of self-check exercises and timed learning games.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Money Game: Counting Money
Students solve money word problems and count correct change to answer the questions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will drag various coins and paper money to count up to make change. They will also solve real life situations to make change.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Change Maker
Play games that let you practice making change in five different currencies: Australia, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, and United States.
Starfall
Starfall: Coin Monkey
This lesson focuses on coins and how to count them to make other coins: pennies, nickles, and quarters.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: If You're Working With My Money
In this instructional activity, students will handle money by opening a cash fund, arranging the money in a cash drawer, make change, and reconcile the cash drawer at the end of a business day. After learning the procedure for handling...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shop 'Til You Drop
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an end of unit review for identifying coins, adding money amounts, and making change.
Topmarks Online
Topmarks: Toy Shop Money Game
Money games where children work out which coins will buy toy shop items and where they can calculate change. Has different levels of difficulty.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Fair Trades
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students make fair trades using pennies and nickels or pennies and dimes. They will also review coins and their names.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Money Change From $10
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a differentiated interactive flipchart in which students visit an ice-cream shop, computer shop and fish & chip shop to calculate change from $10 for various items.
University of Nebraska Omaha
University of Nebraska: My Money [Pdf]
A teaching resource with teacher guides, lesson plans, and a test of money for grades 4, 5, and 6. Includes exercise sheets.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Dolphin Feed
Feed the dolphin selecting the coins that make the given amount of change.
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.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: News Values
Learn the essential elements of every good news story from Gerald Lanson and Mitchell Stephens, authors of Writing and Reporting The News, who emphasize eleven judgments that journalism students should make when evaluating newsworthiness.
Curated OER
Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students count out coins to pay for different items and different ways you can write cents. There are various items and opportunities for students can practice shopping. This makes a great center activity.