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Coins to Bills!
Students practice using money at a grocery store. For this money lesson, students get familiar with grocery store ads and work in pairs to use these ads to select food items to purchase using money manipulatives. Students practice being...
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Buggin' Out (Identifying and Adding Amounts of Money)
Students explore consumer math by participating in estimate exercises. In this currency lesson, students identify and define each piece of U.S. currency and their value to the monetary system. Students complete several money worksheets...
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How Many Pennies? challenge
In this solving penny word problems worksheet, students solve addition problems and use dimes, nickels, and pennies to draw the least number of coins possible for the total amount. Students solve three problems.
Illustrative Mathematics
Coins in a Circular Pattern
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...
K12 Reader
Money, Money, Everywhere!
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, dollars. Here's a comprehension worksheet that asks young readers to respond to a series of questions based on a passage about money.
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Coin Connections
A wonderful lesson on identifying the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter awaits your young mathematicians. They engage in a multi-session lesson which allows them to practice using the values of each coin in worksheets and activities...
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Musical Change
Young learners record observations about different coin denominations and create a song about coins to the traditional song, "The Wheels on the Bus." This lesson is based on the Tennessee Quarter Reverse, and has all sorts of excellent...
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Great Graph!
Here is a fantastic lesson counting coins, interpreting graphs, and the concept of "greater than" and "less than." Young mathematicians utilize worksheets embedded in the plan in order to practice these concepts. The worksheets are...
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Alexander Used to Be Rich
Reading Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, launches this instructional activity appropriate for children who recognize coins and have been introduced to coin values. Using addition and subtraction skills, the class tracks...
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Can You Match the Coins?
In this early childhood identifying coins worksheet, students match the heads of the 5 coins to tails of the coins. A dime, half-dollar, quarter, penny, and nickel are included
Noetic Learning
Counting Change
In this online/interactive consumer math activity, students read a statement telling the amount of sales and the amount paid and make change showing the number of dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies needed. Students solve 2...
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What's Missing
In this money worksheet, learners solve 4 word problems where they are given an amount of money and must determine how much more money they need to reach a given amount. The coins used are pennies, nickels, and dimes. Pictures of the...
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A Dollar for Penny
Students demonstrate different ways to make a dollar. For this consumer math lesson, students read the book A Dollar for Penny and identify the value of each coin. Students determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.
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Kindergarten Money
Students identify the various coins and their values through presentations, a rubric, a value pretest, and coin manipulatives. Money is incorporated into various activities whether at home or in school. Students create money webs using...
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Deena's Lucky Penny
Young scholars discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency. In this money instructional activity, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet. Young scholars also read Shel...
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What's All this Money Madness?
Second graders examine the value of money. In this money lesson, 2nd graders read the book Money Madness by David A. Alder and watch Brain Pop Jr. videos. Students discuss why we need money and how people earn money. Students each...
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Money Math Carnival
Third graders explore money in a carnival format. In this money lesson, 3rd graders create a carnival of mathematics activities. Students determine the value of money in mixed amounts and explore how to create representations of money.
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Math Challenge: Count Coins
In this counting change instructional activity, students count the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amount of each group of coins. Students solve 6 problems.
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Money Math Challenge 3
In this finding the total amounts worksheet, learners add the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amounts of the various combinations. Students solve 6 problems.
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Counting Money
Students learn how to count money. In this money lesson, students review the names and values for each coin. Students learn how to count bills and coins and how to write amounts of money. Students complete web activities including a...
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Money Subtraction Math Questions
Challenge your students with this activity in which students use coins to answer subtraction questions. Using this 6 question learning exercise, learners could practice identifying pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, and hone their...
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Quarters and Dollars
Second graders determine value of quarters and dollars, solve real-life problems involving money, and compare values of sets of coins and bills.
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Math: Making Money
The concept of counting money is reinforced for 2nd graders through visual representations in this slide show. This interactive presentation includes slides that ask for a specific money amount, students then must click on how many coins...