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The Case of the Broken Piggy Bank

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students list the value of a quarter, dime, nickel, and penny in dollar form. They find the total monetary value of a set of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. They calculate change received on a purchase.
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How do You Stack Up? Revisited

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students estimate the thickness of coins. For this stack up lesson, students stack pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They calculate and record the thickness of each coin. Students stack coins and estimate the height of the stack.
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Smart Shopping

For Students 3rd
In this exact change worksheet, 3rd graders look over a price list and circle each item that Danielle can buy with 3 quarters, 2 dimes, a nickel and a penny. Students find five groups of items that Danielle can buy together with the...
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Coins - Total Value

For Students 2nd
In this money worksheet, 2nd graders total the value of the coins in each of 5 boxes. They use the value of pennies, dimes, nickels, and quarters as they find the totals.
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Coins - How Much?

For Students 2nd
In this money worksheet, 2nd graders total the value of coins shown in each of 5 boxes using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. They bubble in the circle under the proper amount in each problem.
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Coin Count Thanksgiving Riddle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this coin counting worksheet, students count the values for each set by counting the quarters, dimes, pennies, and nickels. Students then write the letters for the coin values to write in the bottom blank to solve the Thanksgiving...
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Coins - Totaling Coin Value

For Students 2nd
In this money worksheet, 2nd graders find the total number of the coins shown in 4 rows by writing the value of each coin and adding them together. They find the values using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
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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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Grade 1 Math Practice

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins worksheet, students answer 5 fill in the blank questions where they count groups of nickels, dimes and pennies and then write the amount of money on the blank provided.
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Will It Sink Or Float?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Have your class predict whether objects will sink or float in water. Learners consider a data table of mass, volume and whether the object sank or floated. They develop an evidence-based explanation for the results.
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Count, Compare and Make Change

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the value of coins and how to make change. In this counting money lesson, 2nd graders compare coins, practice making change, and review the value of coins using hands-on activities.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Pat Brisson's Benny's Pennies

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners listen to the book, "Benny's Pennies" and conduct math and language arts lessons to go along with the book. They demonstrate their ability to count pennies, understand proper sequence, and rewrite a story using different...
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Coin Battery

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars explore basic principles of electricity and create their own battery.
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A Penny for Abe

For Teachers K
Students explore Abraham Lincoln through stories and poems. They also explore him being on the penny.
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Math Path

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this mental math worksheet, learners practice counting money and comparing amounts. They first count the total amount of money that each of the 3 children will find on their way to the bank, and then they answer 2 questions about the...
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Matching Coins and Amounts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students recognize coins and understand their values. In this coins lesson, students identify sets of coins and match them with their value.
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Count Coins and Bills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study the names and values of different denominations of paper money, count sets of money that include both coins and bills. They complete a money chart, read and solve word problems.
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Seeing Numbers In Tens And Ones

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders develop the skill of place values up to the tens place. They practice identifying the values of 2 digit numbers and writing the correlating values with counting. They use the example of money to make the lesson more...
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Price

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete worksheets on producers and consumers and the total price of a group of items. In this price lesson plan, 1st graders read the book A Dollar for Penny in order to understand price, producers, and consumers, and...
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Jelly Beans for Sale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students connect literature (story Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan) to math concepts. In these estimating and money lessons, students work with jelly beans, unifix cubes, pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, to estimate and make...
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Money and Coins

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this coins worksheet, learners review and count four different types of coins: penny, dime, nickel and quarter. Students view the word name, cent number and actual dollar sign for each denomination.
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Saving Money

For Teachers 1st
After listening to the wonderful book, A Chair for my Mother, young mathematicians engage in an awesome lesson about coins and the value of saving money. The lesson is done in a classic style - everything is beautifully organized, and...
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DK Publishing

Real-Life Word Problems, Part 6

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Bring math alive with these five word problems. Using multiplication and division in a space for writing equations, fourth graders solve the word problems and practice writing out the answers in a separate area. Helpful as either a...
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Great Graph!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
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...