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Stamping Coins
Learners demonstrate that they can use a variety of coin combinations to make a single amount. They study all the ways to make 50 cents using coins using different coins.
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Money Math Match
Students hunt for the classmate who holds a bag of coins equal in value to theirs, study that different combinations of coins can represent the same amount of money and practice using coins to represent a set value in different ways.
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Adding Coins
Here's a great way to get scholars drawing out math problems. This money math worksheet gives them five coins to start with. They find as many combinations of three as they can to create different totals. Two examples are given here, and...
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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...
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Right on the Money
Students are introduced to coins and bills in American currency. After watching a video, they practice making the same amount of money out of different combinations of coins and bills. Using the internet, they discover how much each...
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Coins in a Circular Pattern
What starts as a basic question of division and remainders quickly turns abstract in this question of related ratios and radii. The class works to surround a central coin with coins of the same and different values, then develops a...
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Money Math Challenge 3
In this finding the total amounts worksheet, students add the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amounts of the various combinations. Students solve 6 problems.
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Money Bags
Third graders explore different combinations of coins that can be used for specified amounts of money using paper money and tree diagrams. They write money amounts in different forms. Groups utilize a tree diagram imbedded in this lesson...
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Money
Third graders review the values of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. They discuss how the different types of coins can equal the same amount. Students give examples of ways to make a given amount under $1.00. They explain what the...
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How To: Count Coins and Bills
Students discover the names and values of different monetary denominations. For this money lesson, students examine the different combinations that money can be added in to find specified amounts. The students complete worksheets based...
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Permutations and Combinations
For this permutations and combinations worksheet, middle schoolers complete word problems and pattern problems dealing with permutations and combinations. Students complete 14 problems total.
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Integrated Algebra Regents Questions: Combinations and Probability
For this combinations and probability worksheet, students solve 3 short answer problems. Students draw tree diagrams to represent possible outcomes in a sample space. Students determine the probability of an event.
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Counting Money
Students learn how to count money. In this money activity, students review the names and values for each coin. Students learn how to count bills and coins and how to write amounts of money. Students complete web activities including a...
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Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. In this money activity, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets...
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Combinations
In this combinations worksheet, students solve 20 different problems that include various combinations in each. First, they determine the number of two person teams that can be selected from a given number of people. Then, students...
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Money Marvels
Second graders explore various combinations of coins and dollars that add up to make given totals. They complete five different studying stations, completing a worksheet at each center, and mentally perform calculations involving...
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Trading Faces
The game of "Trading Faces" is the focus of this clever math lesson. Your mathematicians use addition to determine the values of different coin combinations by playing the game. Everything you need to implement the game, and the lesson,...
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Which Coin?
Manage your money with change purses and piggy banks. Once they match different coins to corresponding price tags, first and second graders add the amounts of change in each illustration. For extra practice, bring in small items for kids...
Illustrative Mathematics
Field Day Scarcity
Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...
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What's in Your Piggy Bank?
Fill up your piggy banks! First graders find different ways to fill up cute piggy banks with 30 cents. Will they use two dimes and two nickels? Or a quarter and five pennies? Use this activity with groups to reinforce your money math...
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Money
Students study the value of the penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar. They demonstrate how different coin combinations equal the same amounts of money and write money amounts using the decimal point and dollar sign. They try to...
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Two of Everything
Students listen to story Two of Everything, illustrate coins they would put into the Magic Pot using paper and pencil, and solve Magic Pot riddles by viewing slide show and predicting coin totals. Students then create table listing...
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Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday
What a great way to incorporate Judith Viorst's story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rish Last Sunday, with a math lesson on money. Second graders listen to the story being read while the teacher stops to record each time Alexander spends...
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Allowance Problem
In this word problem worksheet, students solve 1 short answer word problem. Students determine the least number of coins needed to give seven people a dollar allowance.