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Counting with Base - Ten Models

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Help your kids develop strategies for counting. In this base-ten lesson, learners use matching cards, base 10 blocks, and dry erase markers and boards to examine the base 10 counting system.
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Using Credit and Spending Money Wisely

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss how to spend money wisely. For this consumer math lesson, students read the book, Mr. Popper's Penguins and discuss how much it costs to take care of a pet. Students complete a worksheet to calculate the total cost of...
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Everyday Math

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss word problems involving time and money. In this mathematics instructional activity, students solve word problems as a class focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. Students then make...
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Savings Accounts and Interest

For Teachers 1st
First graders study money, banks, and getting interest on money. In this consumer math lesson, 1st graders listen to Stan and Jan Berenstain's, Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money. They use the concepts in the book to discuss...
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Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.
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Adding and Subtracting Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate U.S. currency by pretending to buy food.  In this money lesson plan, students discover the vocabulary and value for each U.S. coin, then add the amounts in dollars and cents of food items they wish to purchase....
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Money Smart children

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students elementary financial vocabulary words: spend, save, invest and donate. In this finance lesson, students respond to the story "Sam and the Lucky Moon." Students describe the concepts of wants and needs, resources, scarcity,...
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Matching Coins and Amounts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students recognize coins and understand their values. In this coins lesson, students identify sets of coins and match them with their value.
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Illustrative Mathematics

$20 Dot Map

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Challenge the addition skills of young learners with this open-ended math problem. The task is simple, get from start to finish by connecting a series of three numbers. The trick is that the sum of the numbers must be less than...
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Scarcity and Choice

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
After reading the book A Bargain for Frances, young economists discuss how money is exchanged for goods or services. They demonstrate effective financial decision-making by listing ways to save money for a product they would like to buy.
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Solve Story Problems: Sold! A Mathematics Adventure

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young mathematicians listen to the book Sold!: A Mathematics Adventure by Nathan Zimelman where they encounter ways to solve story problems. They then create and solve start unknown addition and subtraction equations. Resource builds in...
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Math on a Roll

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Learners practice various math skills using a polyhedral die. In this dice game lesson, students practice multiplication, addition, place value, and money using games. Standard dice may be used instead of a polyhedral die with...
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students determine the differences between goods and services, and saving and spending. In this economics lesson, students listen to a rhyming story about a bunny with money. They play a matching game with the associated cards and work...
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Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars speak and listen to different prices of items and complete a worksheet. In this prices lesson plan, students circle the correct prices on a sheet they are given based on the ones their teacher calls out.
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No More Money Trouble

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Young consumers explore money identification and counting. In this cross-curricular money instructional activity, they participate in comprehension and writing activities prior to and after reading the book Money Trouble by Bill Cosby....
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Counting Coins

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice counting and adding or subtracting coins. The instructional activity includes many different selections of coin types and number of coins that you may configure and select. Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters are the...
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Let's Find Out About Money

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify coins (pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters), and their attributes, including physical characteristics and value.
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Let's Find Out About Money

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the uses and development of money as part of the study of finance. They focus upon the recognition of different coins and identify the value of each. Then students solve problems involving money and coins.
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It's in Your Pocket

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine American coins. In this American currency lesson, students study how American money came to be as well as the responsibilities of the U.S. Mint. Students discover details regarding American coins and design their own coins.
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Dollars and Cents Word Problems

For Students K - 1st
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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Technology - money

For Teachers 1st
First graders trade coin amounts by using punch out coins. In this trading coins lesson plan, 1st graders use pennies, nickels, and dimes, and then trade them with each other in equivalent amounts. Students also complete money computer...
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Math Path

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this mental math activity, students practice counting money and comparing amounts. They first count the total amount of money that each of the 3 children will find on their way to the bank, and then they answer 2 questions about the...
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Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. In this coin value lesson, students compare and contrast various coins to aid in identification, sort coins from smallest to largest, and match an equal number of pennies to...
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Counting Money- Count Coins COUNTING MONEY - COUNT COINS

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice counting money by counting coins.