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Casting Coins
This wonderful art lesson invites students to design and “mint” coins bearing their own symbols. A simple carving andcasting process using Blick Wonder-Cut®linoleum and modeling clay is described in the plan. Coins can be one or 2-sided,...
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New $1 Coins Honor U.S. Presidents
Elementary schoolers examine money, then read a news article about new coins being produced by the U.S. Mint. The teacher introduces the article with samples of American money and a vocabulary activity, then students read the news piece...
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Count Coins and Bills
Lower graders recognize coins and paper money and understand its value. They participate in a variety of money problems to appreciate the value of money. Students add, subtract, chart and solve money problems.
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How Do You Spend Your Money?
Fifth graders examine ways to save and spend money. They look at ways that people earn, save, and spend money using chapters from Tom Birdseye's Tarantula Shoes. They add and subtract decimals to fill in a worksheet entitled, "Is It a...
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Paper Money
Students investigate the concept of money and its images that are found around the world. They conduct research using a variety of resources while collecting different images to create examples of money. Students create copies of the...
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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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Identifying Coins and Their Value
Use the special Tennessee State Quarter as a learning tool. During this lesson plan, discuss why the Tennessee Quarter has musical instruments on it. You can also utilize a worksheet embedded in the plan to help your class compose a song...
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Money
Which coins do you need? Scholars are faced with a challenge: using only three coins they must find the exact amount needed for six items. The coins are standard US currency and are pictured at the top, however their value is not listed....
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Money Match
Playing a game can be educational, pupils use this matching activity to identify coins and their values. This is a great way to have learners practice their money sense.
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Real-Life Problems: Money
Help your fourth graders become responsible consumers with this math worksheet! They solve six word problems about buying toys using the four operations. An example at the top of the page helps pupils write out the necessary equations...
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Financial Literacy: Money Attitudes Lesson Plan
Going once, going twice, sold! An auction provides class members with an opportunity to examine their attitudes toward money. After bidding on and purchasing items, individuals complete an attitude survey and then identify a goal that...
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Money - Using R & R to Teach Mathematics
Second graders count up coins of money that add up to one dollar. In this money lesson plan, 2nd graders also spend money and keep track of how much they have spent.
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What can money tell us?
Students study the physical presence, imagery and written text on a reproduction of colonial currency. They apply their research to a modern day quarter to compare and contrast two coins. In addition, they design their own colonial...
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Whole Number Division: Repaying Money
Mathematicians answer five word problems in an interactive practice all about repaying money using division. A calendar and moveable dollar bills aides participants in finding solutions to multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and...
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The History of Paper Money
Learners research the history of paper money using the Internet in order to answer questions and create their own bills.
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Show Me The Money
Third graders explore the value of U.S. money. In this money lesson plan, 3rd graders print out pictures of money from the Internet and create play money. The students will play a game in which they display the amount of money called out...
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Money Counts
Fourth graders identify bills and coins to $20 bills and make equivalencies. They organize bills and coins in groups from greatest to least and least to greatest. Students count out change.
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The Bernstein Bear's Trouble with Money: Financial and Academic Literacy
What do figures of speech have to do with financial literacy? Take an interdisciplinary look at The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money to find out. Young analysts read about the cubs' spendthrift ways and how Mama and Papa Bear teach...
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Expressing Money
Young scholars listen to a book read to them by their teacher and express the amount of money stated with their manipulative of play money and show different ways to express that amount of money.
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Counting Money and Making Change
Students count collections of coins and one-dollar bills. They solve problems and learn to use the dollar sign ($) with the decimal point to represent money amounts. This lesson is important as a foundation for future math concepts in...
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Shop till You Drop! Working with Money
Paper and coin currency are shown and reviewed, and then used to apply consumer math skills. Learners are given two examples of how they should line up decimal points and place values when adding or subtracting money. They watch as the...
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Two-Step Problems and Money Concepts
Elementary schoolers solve two-step equations and practice money concepts. They solve multi-step addition and subtraction contextual problems and apply money concepts to real life situations. Pupils use pictures and counters to help them...
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Fame, Money, or Power?: Writing Prompt
In this writing worksheet, students will write about which is most important and which is least important: fame, money or power. Writing lines are provided.