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Add Using a Place Value Chart
In this addition practice activity, 1st graders sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems. They may use counters is necessary.
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For Sale!
Students review same type (denomination) coin sets, and build same type coin sets equaling fifty cents.
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Matching Pairs
Learners take turns matching the appropriate shapes (listing coin values) to those with numerical values listed on them. When students are successful, they win a blank shape for their collection.
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Estimation Challenge
Students calculate the length of the classroom using non-standard units of measurement and estimation. Using a cracker box, they discuss measuring various objects in the room as a class, and independently estimate and measure the length...
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Our Daily Five
Young scholars explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Double-Digit Addition with Regrouping
First graders recall place value system and double-digit addition, create and manipulate double-digit regrouping, and devise and identify ways to use regrouping.
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Have You Heard It Through the Grapevine?
First graders, in groups, try to figure out which box of name brand raisins have more.
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Probability or Ability?
Students fill in a probability chart while attempting to catch candy with their non-dominant hands. They replicate the activity with a coin.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants and the Math Challenge
In this lesson plan, students create and solve a word problem related to counting money, develop a script for a short scene, and perform it using the elements of performance. Teacher resources are provided.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where learners practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Math Bargains
Students use real coins to explore and solve problems involving the purchase of items.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Show Me the Money
In this lesson, young scholars identify coins, describe their attributes, learn their value, and count like coins. Students view an interactive web lesson that provides practice. Concepts are taught using songs, poems and games. This...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars
In this lesson, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and then they must...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing
In this lesson plan, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Foundational Math Concepts for Elementary Ages
Practice everyday math skills such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, place value, counting money, telling time, fractions, decimals, and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Counting Lesson Using Pennies and Dimes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Saxon Math Lesson 53 - writing the Number 48 counting pennies and dimes.