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Curated OER

Using Calculators to Solve Problems with Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders solve math problems.  In this calculator lesson, 2nd graders practice typing money amounts into a calculator and use the calculator to solve math problems involving money.
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Curated OER

Estimating and Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the concepts of estimating and rounding. In this estimating and rounding lesson, students play a game of tic-tac-toe. Students pick items and must estimate their cost by rounding. Students estimate the costs of pretend...
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Money Matters

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners practice working with real money by keeping records of purchases.  In this economics lesson, students gather money either from home or a school fund raiser and purchase items at a grocery store for people who need help....
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Curated OER

Trading Game

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils listen to story about money or coins, and play game to help them solidify their understanding of money. Students focus specifically on coin value and calculating amounts of money up to fifty cents or above, depending on level.
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Curated OER

Count On It!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate money. In this consumer math lesson, students use coins, identify their value, then group them in various ways to equal a dollar.
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Curated OER

Penny Panda's Sticker Store

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice counting money using nickels, dimes, and quarters. They review the value of nickels, dimes and quarters. They explore Penny Panda's Sticker Store, and talk a little about what the object of the activity is (save...
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Curated OER

Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders show combinations for $1.00. In this dollar combinations lesson, 2nd graders use nickels, dimes, and quarters to model and count combinations equaling $1.00.
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Curated OER

Count Coins and Bills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study the names and values of different denominations of paper money, count sets of money that include both coins and bills. They complete a money chart, read and solve word problems.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

How Many Ways?

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students estimate the amount of money they have in groups of pennies, nickels, and dimes. In this money lesson plan, students then count up the amounts they have and exchange money amounts.
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Discovery Education

Discovering Math: Beginning Measurement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Weight, time, length, cost, and mass are all things we can measure. Learners are introduced to the concepts they'll need to know before embarking on any measurement adventure. They are introduced to each type of measurement and types of...
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How Much is that Name?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore money counting.  In this money problem solving lesson, students calculate how much money their name is "worth" using the corresponding alphabet letters which have been assigned a coin value.
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Curated OER

Super Cents

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study money amounts less than a dollar. In this math instructional activity, 2nd graders practice counting coins. Students read various stories and discuss how money was used in the stories.
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Curated OER

Adding Two Digit Numbers with Using Dimes and Pennies

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a math game using dimes and pennies. They practice combining coins to make a given amount of money, and they use the combinations to practice adding two digit numbers. Teacher assessment strategies and...
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Saving Makes Cents

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars identify ways families save money. In this financial lesson, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and discuss ways to save money. Young scholars identify coin values and practice counting money.
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Curated OER

Making $ents

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete several activities that give them opportunities to practice and model strategies that help them count money. They read The Penny Pot storybook; they play a trading game with various coins. They participate in a...
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Curated OER

Get Ready, Get Set, Squeeze!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. In this money counting and social studies instructional activity, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for...
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Curated OER

Read It, Write It, Count It!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a good lesson which has learners solve addition and subtraction problems. For this computation lesson, problems are solved, then a sentence or word story about the problem is written.
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Curated OER

Introducing money (Elementary, Mathematics)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars study the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, one each day for four days, using a magnifying glass to identify the similarities. Then students discuss differences and value and learn a 'rap' to memorize values.
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Math & Science

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to techniques to help with with math and science. In groups, they use a worksheet to discover how to count money. As a class, they watch a PowerPoint to define terms associated with science. To end the lesson,...
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Curated OER

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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Curated OER

A Dollar for Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars demonstrate different ways to make a dollar. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book A Dollar for Penny and identify the value of each coin. Young scholars determine combinations of coins that can make up a...
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Curated OER

Coin Carnival

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the value of coins. In this coin value lesson, students read The Penny Pot by Stuart Murphy. Students expand on skills learned in the book and engage in activities to determine the value of a mixed set of coins while...
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Curated OER

Delayed Gratification

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Word problems are great for engaging critical thinking skills, and word problems involving money increase a child's financial literacy. Boost your critical and financial thinkers with a multi-step word problem involving money and problem...
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Curated OER

Growing, Growing, Gone

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Budding mathematicians identify growing patterns in numbers and songs then create their own patterns. They look at number patterns and language patterns and then create their own using money and footprints.

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