Illustrative Mathematics
Money in the Piggy Bank
It's time to crack open that piggy bank and see what's inside. First, count up the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, identifying what fraction of them are dimes. Then calculate the total value of the coins, writing another fraction...
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What's in Your Piggy Bank?
Fill up your piggy banks! First graders find different ways to fill up cute piggy banks with 30 cents. Will they use two dimes and two nickels? Or a quarter and five pennies? Use this activity with groups to reinforce your money math...
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Piggy Bank Math Game
For this money and coins worksheet, students participate in playing a money game that incorporates the process of making change. Students play the money game with a deck of seventy-five cards that have piggy banks with various amounts of...
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Piggy Bank vs. Bank – Choosing and Maintaining Your Account
Cha-ching! Using the practical resource, scholars investigate the different types of bank accounts and banking services available. Pupils view a PowerPoint, practice writing checks, and complete a checking account research project.
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Piggy Bank Math
In this math worksheet, young scholars learn to count coins to show a certain amount of money. Students are asked to use an indicated number of coins to total an amount. There are 8 problems. Young scholars make a chart to solve each.
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Practice Estimating!
Bring math home with this interative estimating worksheet! Scholars make educated guesses about the number of six household items: crayons in a crayon box, keys on a key ring, coins in a piggy bank, trees in the yard, pictures on the...
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Piggy Bank Math
Students practice solving money problems. In this counting coins lesson, students follow the outlined steps and use mixed operations to determine the coin combinations needed to solve a math word problem.
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Susan's Choice
Young economists explore opportunity cost by counting how much money Susan has in her piggy bank. From here, they are challenged to help Susan make a choice about what she can buy with her money.Â
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Banking for Your Future
Students get a handle on their own personal finances. They discover how banks work, how to plan and stick to a budget, and other helpful tips on managing money. They study the Federal Reserve System, which oversees the nation's banks.
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Which Coin?
Manage your money with change purses and piggy banks. Once they match different coins to corresponding price tags, first and second graders add the amounts of change in each illustration. For extra practice, bring in small items for kids...
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Filling Up the Pigs
In this adding money worksheet, students solve 3 problems in which coins in a piggy bank are counted and an additional amount of money is added to it.
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Piggy Bank Math Paper
In this subtraction using decimals activity, students write 9 math problems that require them subtract change amounts from 1 dollar. Students solve the problems they write.
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Let's Learn About Money
Rather than breaking their piggy banks, your students can use this learning exercise to demonstrate their understanding of the fixed value of coins. Class members add the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to determine the...
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How Much is Saved?
Counting pence is great because some of the common coin values are two, five and ten. Learners assess each piggy bank and count the pence contained within. They count by 2s, 5s, and 10s depending on the coin in each bank. Tip: The...
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Money Banks
In this different coins worksheet, 1st graders guess which piggy bank has the most money in it. Then students count the actual amount of money in each piggy bank by counting and adding up the coins.
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Same Amount Different Pigs
In this money worksheet, students solve 4 problems where they draw combinations of coins in a piggy bank, to show 4 different ways to make a total coin value of 38 cents.
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Counting Nickels
This little piggy went to market! Piggy banks are displayed on this page with varying numbers of nickels on each. Coin counters count by 5s to determine how much money each piggy holds. This is a clever worksheet for counting practice...
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Show Me the Money
Students review the terms in the "Money Vocabulary Word Bank." They make a wallet or purse to keep their money in. Students learn the song "Show Me the Money." They participate in five centers: 1) Head or Tails Tally, 2) Piggy Bank...
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Addition Word Problems #2
Expose scholars to the ways addition is constantly used through 15 word problems. Many of these have more than two addends, and several involve money math and adding numbers with decimals to the hundredths place. Learners also must use...
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Money Matters
In this money matters worksheet, students match the pictures of the coins to appropriate piggy banks mark with money amounts.
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Cents Sense
In this counting money worksheet, learners solve 4 problems in which students are matched with their labeled piggy banks. Learners read the clues and match the banks to each person.
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Counting Pennies
In this penny counting worksheet, learners solve 4 basic subtraction questions using numbers between 1 and 10. They count how many pennies were in the piggy bank to start with. They then count how many pennies were left after the bear...
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The Case of the Broken Piggy Bank
Young scholars 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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Savings Accounts and Interest
First graders study money, banks, and getting interest on money. In this consumer math lesson, 1st graders listen to Stan and Jan Berenstain's, Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money. They use the concepts in the book to discuss...