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Counting Money and Making Change
Students count collections of coins and one-dollar bills. They solve problems and learn to use the dollar sign ($) with the decimal point to represent money amounts. This lesson is important as a foundation for future math concepts in...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Making Change
This dreamy resource has little ones computing the change on the purchase of an ice cream cone. Mia describes each step in two methods: subtraction of decimals and counting up from the sale price.
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All About Money
Few topics engage young mathematicians as much as learning about money. Through a series of shared readings and hands-on activities, children explore the US currency system, learning how to count money and calculate change as they create...
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Making Change - Bills And Coins
Here is an interactive worksheet that allows learners to practice counting change with bills and coins, make change for a dollar, and practice their subtraction skills. The bills used are ones, fives, tens, twenties, and fifties. A good...
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Ch-Ch-Ching Cafe: Play Restaurant Make Change
Fourth graders make change by participating in a role-play restaurant activity. In this making change lesson, 4th graders use their math skills to compare prices and compute bills in a role play restaurant activity.
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Making Change
Students investigate how to make change when purchasing items. In this making change lesson plan, students examine a scenario to calculate the correct change. Students play Bingo based on information and calculations to determine the...
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Count, Compare and Make Change
Second graders review the value of coins and how to make change. In this counting money instructional activity, 2nd graders compare coins, practice making change, and review the value of coins using hands-on activities.
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Money Skills
Young mathematicians learn to make sense out of money with this collection of skills practice worksheets. From identifying the different coins and bills in the US currency system, to counting money and correctly using the dollar and...
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Counting Change
In this counting change instructional activity, students read information about making and counting change. Students then solve 4 problems that require them to draw coins for the correct amount of change in different buying situations.
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Lesson Four - Making Change
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept.
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Everyday Mathematics: Counting Up
In this counting up worksheet, pupils learn strategies to help them solve problems involving change. Students study a number grid and number line to help them count up to make change.
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Making Change
Second graders explore how to incorporate a new type of technology, the cash register and/or a calculator, as a motivational tool for solving real life problems. They practice estimating money and counting back change from $20.00.
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Learn to Earn When you Tend to Spend
Analyzing and understanding word problems is extremely important. Pupils learn that in money problems, earn usually means you add and spend usually means you subtract. They will solve a series of money-related word problems, label coins,...
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Counting Change and Changing Coins
Second graders demonstrate how to count change. In this consumer math lesson, 2nd graders read the book The Penny Pot and identify the value of coins. Students complete a worksheet to practice counting coins.
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Making Change with Coins
In this online interactive making change with coins learning exercise, students read examples and use their problem solving skills in order to solve to 24 problems.
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Making Change with Dollars anc Cents
Third graders increase their knowledge of how to make change with dollars and cents by correctly identifying coins along with their values and then using coins to make an assigned amount which will be written on envelopes. They then...
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Place Value: Making Change with Canadian Money
In this place value: making change with Canadian money worksheet, students use a spreadsheet and certain coins to practice and record how much change would be given from a $5 bill. A parent or tutor adjusts the questions to the child's...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Making Change
Young scholars make change from play money they use based on prices mentioned in a book they read. In this making change lesson plan, students use subtraction to find their change amount.
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Money Makes the Fair-Go-Round
Young scholars explore the value of money. In this money lesson, students investigating combining amounts of money and making change. Young scholars count sets of money and make fair trades. Resources are provided.
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Shop with Us at Whelan School
Third graders use their math and research skills to create and manage a classroom/school store. They use a computer to manage, organize and access information. They practice pricing products, computing sales, counting money and making...
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George's Place
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that uses money as a learning tool. This one is especially clever! During the lesson, pupils pretend they are eating at "George's Place" diner. Small groups are given one bag of play...
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Estimation
Select items to purchase from a store, add up the total cost, then estimate the total cost! Kids count out the money needed to make the purchase and pay for the items. An excelent way to connect real life math and estimation!
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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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Ice Cream Treat Math
In this counting money worksheet, students read 2 scenarios and respond to 4 questions pertaining to counting money and making change.