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Estimating and Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the concepts of estimating and rounding. In this estimating and rounding lesson, students play a game of tic-tac-toe. Students pick items and must estimate their cost by rounding. Students estimate the costs of pretend...
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Quarter Combos

For Teachers 2nd
Review money with this motivating lesson. Using a simple game, learners practice adding up coins to total $.25. This lesson comes with worksheets that could be used to cement students' knowledge of this topic.
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Discovering Math: Beginning Measurement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young mathematicians are shown a ruler, yardstick, tape measure and scale. They practice measuring length, width, height, and weight. They are then shown a thermometer, and discuss what a thermometer is used for. Everyone is shown how to...
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Counting Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
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...
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Lemonade For Sale

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
2-3rd graders listen to the story, Lemonade for Sale, by Stuart J. Murphy. In the story, children produce and sell lemonade to raise money for their clubhouse, create a product, classify the resources used in production as natural...
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Tiling Tessellations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore tessellations. In this shapes and geometry lesson, students describe the attributes of many of the shapes displayed on an Elmo. Learners create examples of tessellations using pattern blocks.
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Less Than Zero

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Perry the penguin wants to buy a new scooter, but he doesn't have any funds! Walk your kids through the short book Less Than Zero, and have them track his borrowing, spending, and saving on a line graph while you read. Pupils will learn...
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Apple Exploration

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Turn your classroom into a farmers' market! Reading Applesauce Season by Eden Ross Lipson or Monica Wellington’s Apple Farmer Annie, launches this investigation of apples, farmers' markets, and the people selling products. The class...
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Trading Game

For Teachers K - 4th
Students listen to story about money or coins, and play game to help them solidify their understanding of money. Students focus specifically on coin value and calculating amounts of money up to fifty cents or above, depending on level.
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Right on the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students watch a video about different ways of making the same amounts of money and view a clip about the Denver Mint to discover how coins are made. They complete a Web activity on each coin's worth and find out facts about the penny.
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Count Nickels

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, learners use problem solving skills to solve 6 story problems that require them to count coins.
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Count Dimes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students use problem solving skills to solve 6 story problems that require them to count coins.
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Create and Solve

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students use problem solving skills to solve 6 story problems that require them to count coins.
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Shared and Guided Reading with Ice Cream Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a lesson which has students locate an exclamation point and a comma from the text. They locate previously learned words on the page, and create a word map from the word "Money." Students write about and illustrate their favorite...
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Budgeting: You Can't Manage What You Don't Know

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss budgets. In this mathematics lesson, students watch an episode of Biz Kid$ about budgeting, participate in a guided group discussion, and create a pamphlet to teach others how to budget their money. Extension activities...
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Making Choices

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore financial decision making. In this introductory economics lesson, 2nd graders listen to the book Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst, and discuss making financial choices based on wants and...
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School Fair Cakewalk

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners identify and research various suitable school carnival activities. Then they work together to plan, design, and run all aspects of a school carnival. Students also add up their costs for the event and the amount of money it...
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Having a Savings Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the importance of saving and spending. In this finance lesson, students read the book Kermit the Hermit and discuss the differences between needs and wants. The students complete worksheets concerning money in their...
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Special Snack

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars explore grocery store circulars to choose items for a snack.  In this snack math lesson, students must plan a class snack for $20.00. Young scholars create a list estimating costs.  Students view lists and choose...
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Penny Panda's Sticker Store

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice counting money using nickels, dimes, and quarters. They review the value of nickels, dimes and quarters. They explore Penny Panda's Sticker Store, and talk a little about what the object of the activity is (save...
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Less Than Zero

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars keep track of money. For this money management lesson, students read Less Than Zero by Stuart J. Murphy and manipulate a number line to keep track of spending and borrowing in the story.
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Super Cents

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study money amounts less than a dollar. In this math lesson plan, 2nd graders practice counting coins. Students read various stories and discuss how money was used in the stories.
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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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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers K - 4th
Student explore an economic-decision making model to decide where to donate money they have collected. In this philanthropic money lesson, students develop a plan for raising money and then decide how to best spend it for the most...

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