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Scoot for Money
Students rotate through a group of centers counting the coins that are in a cup placed at each spot. After completing the entire circuit, papers are graded as a whole class and each student gets to spend the money in their cup at a class...
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A Dollar for Penny
Students 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. Students determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.
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Money in the Bank
Students write and draw the pictures and words they see on each coin. They discuss the presidents or other images on the coins' faces. Students are told that each coin represents a specific amount of money. They trace their coins with...
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Hands On Math Lessons with Technology
Learners explore a variety of math concepts. In this integrating technology activity, students visit online webtools such as Max's Math Adventure, I Know That Math, Hands on Banking, and more. A description of each website is...
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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...
The Digits
Telling Time: The Digits
Time to teach your students how to read a clock? This resource is here to help! Engaging young mathematicians with two fun videos and a series of hands-on activities, these lessons offer a multimedia approach to teaching this important...
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How To: Count Coins and Bills
Learners discover the names and values of different monetary denominations. In this money instructional activity, students examine the different combinations that money can be added in to find specified amounts. The learners complete...
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Money Versus Trade
Students discover the importance of exchanging money in a market. In this economics lesson, students discover natural resources and how one can barter with those resources. In addition, students complete worksheets and discover the...
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Money
Students practice counting money. In this counting and comparing money lesson, students review the value of coins and use play money to count out five dollars. Students complete a worksheet to determine what items they could...
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Counting Money
Learners learn how to count money. In this money lesson, students review the names and values for each coin. Learners learn how to count bills and coins and how to write amounts of money. Students complete web...
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Counting Lesson Plan
In whole group practice, children count together and identify how many objects are drawn on butcher paper, increasing the number when they have achieved fluency. In pairs, they count manipulatives. They then copy series of numbers from...
TESCCC
Place Value to 999,999
Master place value with a series of lessons that use math journals, manipulatives, and place value mats. Kids follow the instructions to represent numbers of all sizes with base ten blocks and recording sheets.
Illustrative Mathematics
$20 Dot Map
Challenge the addition skills of young learners with this open-ended math problem. The task is simple, get from start to finish by connecting a series of three numbers. The trick is that the sum of the numbers must be less than...
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Alexander Used to Be Rich
Reading Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, launches this lesson appropriate for children who recognize coins and have been introduced to coin values. Using addition and subtraction skills, the class tracks Alexander’s spending...
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Reviewing Money
Pupils review the concepts on money. For this consumer math lesson, students review the vocabulary and value of each coin. Pupils are shown coins and identify each one's name and value. Students take an included test on the value of...
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!
Students determine the differences between goods and services, and saving and spending. In this economics instructional activity, students listen to a rhyming story about a bunny with money. They play a matching game with the associated...
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Give Me the Money
Young scholars view a money transaction on video and identify the steps involved in making a purchase and calculating change. They write out original money math problems and exchange them with classmates.
Discovery Education
Discovering Math: Beginning Measurement
Weight, time, length, cost, and mass are all things we can measure. Learners are introduced to the concepts they'll need to know before embarking on any measurement adventure. They are introduced to each type of measurement and types of...
Kiwi Crate
Shopping on a Budget
Print some money with a resource on dollars and cents. Combined with a lesson plan about budgeting, the currency includes $1, $5, and $10 bills, coins of varying value, and a platinum credit card.
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Fractions and Wholes
Lower elementary learners recognize solid shapes distributed for making fractions. Each individual uses a wheel and determine which part of a fraction is missing. This is a great instructional activity for your visual learners!
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Buggin' Out (Identifying and Adding Amounts of Money)
Young scholars 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. Young scholars complete several money...
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Money: Count Pennies, Save a Dollar
Students determine how to make the largest sum of money using the least amount of coins. In this mixed currency lesson plan, students listen to a reading of If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz before participating in money...
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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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Smart- Counting Coins
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.