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Quarters and Dollars
Second graders determine value of quarters and dollars, solve real-life problems involving money, and compare values of sets of coins and bills.
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Coin Counting
First graders identify value of coins and complete coin counting activities.
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The Price Is Right - TV Game Show
Learners play variation of TV game show "The Price is Right" to identify coins and their values.
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Undercurrents Of Currency
Students investigate the currencies used by different countries, and explore the principles of currency trading by exchanging currencies at current market rates. They, in groups, access websites which give them current rates.
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ANDERSONVILLE PRISON: AN ECONOMIC MICROCOSM
Students identify the conditions faced by the prisoners of war at Andersonville during the Civil War. They examine how a group of civil war prisoners developed an economic system within their camp.
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Coin Count & Classification
Students make a prediction about how 100 pennies sort by decade or year and then test their predictions. They organize their data using a graph that is imbedded in this lesson.
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Coin Poems
Students recite a poem that aids in coin recognition. They memorize a poem that helps them identify the shape and worth of a penny, nickel, dime and quarter.
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Money - Pennies
In this counting money worksheet, students count the pennies in each example. Students count 6 sets of pennies and write the answers on the lines.
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Money - Nickels
For this counting money worksheet, students count the nickels in each set. Students write the total amount of money for the 6 examples.
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Money in the Bank
Students write and draw the pictures and words they see on each coin. They discuss the presidents or other images on the coins' faces. Students are told that each coin represents a specific amount of money. They trace their coins with...
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Addition With Dimes
In this addition with dimes activity, students add sets of dimes, writing totals beside each of 7 sets. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Double Your Money
A simple game involving doubling money awaits your young mathematicians. They are divided up into Team A and Team B, and are each given certain amounts of pennies. They must double the amount, keep track of how much they've earned, then...
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Money - Mixed Practice
In this counting coins worksheet, students count the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters in each set. Students write the total amount of money for the 6 problems.
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Money Dimes 2
In this counting money worksheet, students count the 5 sets of dimes in each example and write the total amount of money on the lines.
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Money - Dimes
In this counting money activity, students count the dimes in each example and write the total amount for the 6 problems on the lines.
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What's for Lunch?
In this money word problem instructional activity, 5th graders solve and complete 6 different problems that include determining the cost of food for lunch. They determine which meal goes to which customer first. Then, students use the...
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Dollars and Cents Word Problems
These are some cheap items! Learners explore cost with this addition word problem which has them examine the price of a baseball and a pencil. They add them together to find the total spent. Because there is an explanation below,...
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Money and Math
Not only will your young Spanish speakers develop shopping/ money vocabulary, they'll practice basic math as well! This plan will take no longer than 10-15 minutes and just has learners look at different products and do simple math. If...
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Geometric Shape Cakes
Students become problem solvers and communicate geometrical ideas. In this geometrical shapes lesson, students make a cake template from geometrical shapes.
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The One
In this problem solving worksheet, 4th graders utilize counters or pennies to learn about the parts of a whole in 4 groups of 3 circles that equal 12 counters.
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Doubling and Halving
For this mathematics worksheet, students identify how to solve by doubling and halving. They use strategies like doubling and thirding to calculate answers to each of the equations on the sheet.
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Baseball Lesson: Barter vs. Money
4th graders view this PowerPoint to recognize the difference between the monetary and barter systems. The author of this resource defines or likens Barter to a swap and misleadingly states that money was invented because bartering took...
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Groupon Math: Dollars or Cents
In this coupon math worksheet, 9th graders read two coupons and answer 4 questions about how the coupons work. Students must write written responses to explain problems with the coupons.
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Science of Money
Students observe oxidation reaction in the lab using copper pennies. In this chemistry activity, students examine a $1 dollar bill and record their observations. They explain how to identify counterfeit money using the iodine test.