NumberNut
Number Nut: Adding Money Under One Dollar
Find the total value of the coins and add to the dollar amount shown. There are ten random questions. This activity helps students to recognize coins.
Topmarks Online
Topmarks: Coins Game
Coins game is a three activity money game which introduces children to UK coinage. It helps children with recognizing coins, sorting coins from lowest to highest, and counting money. Useful as an interactive whiteboard activity.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Recognizing the Penny
As an introduction to a unit on money, students will work with teacher to recognize the penny and its value. Then students will go shopping at the classroom store to practice counting pennies.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Cash Puzzler
Memory game for early elementary students teaches them to recognize different denominations of money.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail
Pat Tern has been buying items all around town using counterfeit money. Help Math Maven identify a pattern to catch her before she deposits fake money into the Cashflow Bank.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Mathematics Lessons: Counting on Coins
This lesson plan for coin identification is aimed at Kindergarten and First Grade. Lots of activities, suggestions and other resources are also available.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum?
Through the use of folk tales, history, and the students' own experiences, students will recognize the inter-relatedness of goods, services, money. They will locate information about barter as a means of trade, use folk tales as an...
NumberNut
Number Nut: Counting Coins With Values Under One Dollar
Choose the correct group of coins whose sum is the amount shown. Four groups are shown per questions. There are ten random questions.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Is There Enough Money to Buy the Object?
Count the number of coins and determine if there is enough money to buy the object. Money value is less than one dollar. There are ten random questions.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Counting Coins
Practice recognizing and counting coins. Count the total number of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to find the value of the coins. Total score is shown throughout the activity and questions are generated randomly.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 2
Browse resources related to second-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Count the Quarters
Count the number of quarters and determine the total value of the coins. Pictures of quarters are shown which will help students recognize coins. There are ten random questions in this quiz/activity.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: Spell the Coin Name
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of recognizing coins and spelling them. Immediate feedback is given.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: Select the Coin
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of recognizing coins. Immediate feedback is given.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Face Do You Use?
The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for use as money. They will examine the characteristics of money by comparing and contrasting examples of U.S. and...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: How Are Funding Decisions Made?
Based on Avi's book, Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel, students will recognize that different schools, businesses, organizations, etc. have varying methods to allocate funds within the group. After completing research students...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Learning With Money English and Spanish
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was written for a bilingual Grade 2 classroom and involves recognizing the front and back of American coins and ways to make a dollar using different denominations of coins.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
In this lesson, students discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. In prior lessons, students learned how rockets work, but now they learn what real-world decisions engineers have to make when...
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: You Are Here
In this interactive mall environment, students learn how to make smart decisions as consumers. Whether shopping for clothes, choosing the best food deal, searching for a job or buying a cellphone, students will learn how to recognize...
NumberNut
Number Nut: Is There Enough? Values Under Thirty Cents
Count the coins and decide whether you have enough money to buy the object. Money value is less than thirty cents. There are ten random questions.
NumberNut
Number Nut: More or Less: Comparing Values Less Than Thirty Cents
Compare two groups of coins and determine which group is worth more or less than the other. Money values are less than thirty cents. Words, not inequality signs, are used to compare the values. Score is kept as you go through activity.
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.
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Being Smart With Your Smartphone
The lesson plan is designed for teachers to use with 8-11 year olds to help them understand that it is possible to spend real money through their phones, recognize how this can happen and avoid it. The lesson plan will help young people...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Every Penny Counts
Lesson that helps learners understand that people must make choices about the goods and services they purchase. Students recognize the prices indicate what people pay for goods and services, learn to compare prices, and understand that...