Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: Counting Quarters and Dimes
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of counting quarters and dimes. Immediate feedback is given.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: Counting Quarters
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of counting quarters. Immediate feedback is given.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Count How Much Money You Have
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart makes a great center or an addition to your money lesson. Students work in pairs or groups. One student drags an amount of money out for their partner and the partner counts the total.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Counting Coins
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will identify coins and their value. Students will count change up to $1.00.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Money
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart explores a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. The flipchart will help students identify these basic coins and how much each coin is worth. There are assessment questions...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Show Me the Money
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews values of coins and coin combinations.
US Mint
United States Mint: h.i.p. Pocket Change
The H.I.P. Pocket Change (HPC) Web site was launched in July 1999 by the U.S. Mint. HPC is designed to be a fun, educational tool that generates interest in coins, the mint, and U.S. history. A constantly evolving site, HPC works to...
Other
Teaching Heart: Money Poems
Memorize these poems to help you remember which US coin is which, and how much each coin is worth. There are several fun poems for each coin.
Other
Fayette County Public Schools Curriculum: Counting Money
This site has a review of current U.S. coin values.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Pennies a Little Goes a Long Way Game
Use this fun learning game in your classroom to help students understand the value of money. Groups of students will be exchanging pennies for other types of coins.
Starfall
Starfall: Coin Monkey
This lesson focuses on coins and how to count them to make other coins: pennies, nickles, and quarters.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Coin Box
An interactive game involving coins to learn basic money skills such as counting money, making change and identifying coins of different denominations
Purple Math
Purplemath: "Coin" Word Problems
This site demonstrates how to solve 'coin' word problems, given relationships between the types of coins.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Coins Money
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart explores money. Students learn to identify a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. Students also learn the value of these coins. There are assessment questions included. The...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Practicing With Coins
[Free Registration/Login Required] Count money to 50 cents using pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Value of Coins
Use this interactive game to match the value of a coin with the name of the coin. The game lets you know when you answer an item correctly. Scroll down to view the game.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Change Due
This lesson explains what making change is, contains a game and other resources to help you practice this important skill.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will drag various coins and paper money to count up to make change. They will also solve real life situations to make change.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Fair Trades
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students make fair trades using pennies and nickels or pennies and dimes. They will also review coins and their names.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Let's Go Shopping
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count change and dollars to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students count out coins to pay for different items and different ways you can write cents. There are various items and opportunities for students can practice shopping. This makes a great center activity.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: What Coin Is This?
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of identifying coins. Immediate feedback is given.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Coin Identification
Two very basic coin identification activities and a teacher lesson plan are available at this website. These activities may require an explanation before primary age students can use them.
Read Works
Read Works: Time for Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about $1 coins featuring different Presidents being minted in 2007. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.