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The Digits

Telling Time: The Digits

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Time to teach your students how to read a clock? This resource is here to help! Engaging young mathematicians with two fun videos and a series of hands-on activities, these lessons offer a multimedia approach to teaching this important...
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Illustrative Mathematics

A Pencil and a Sticker

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
How much do a pencil and sticker cost? Youngsters use a bar diagram to find the cost of a sticker that is twenty cents less than the cost of a pencil. Given the prices, learners must find the cost of the sticker in order to find the cost...
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Calculator Activity: Count Your Change

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting change worksheet, students learn to use a calculator to count the number for each coin. Students write the total amount of the money on the line.
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Max's Math Adventures

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting coins worksheet, students "take some time to solve the rhyme," reading a rhyme and answering related questions.
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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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Money Amounts to 50 Cents

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this money activity, students add sets of coins, writing the total amount on a line next to each set. Coins add up to amounts to 50 cents. Reference website is given for additional activities.
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Math Challenge

For Students 2nd
In this money worksheet, 2nd graders count coins. Students study the money presented and write the amount show for 6 problems.
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Teaching Students About Money

For Teachers K - 3rd
Classroom activities can teach young students the value of money.
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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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Coin-cessions

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this counting coins practice worksheet, learners use a menu to match equal item values with coin sets. Students are asked to choose items from the menu that total a given amount.
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Addition With Dimes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition with dimes worksheet, 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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Federal Reserve Bank

Sheep in a Shop

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
What do you think sheep might be able to barter when they don't have quite enough to buy a gift? Your pupils can find out this and much more during this lesson about Sheep in a Shop, spending, saving, and bartering.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Toll Bridge Puzzle

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Here is a great problem-solving activity for young mathematicians. Intended solely for instructional purposes, the activity is appropriate for learners to add four numbers together. Not only must they add four numbers together,...
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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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Subtraction Practice, Part 5

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Use this basic worksheet to practice two-digit subtraction in your second grade class. Learners solve three sections of problems, two of which involve money symbols, and write their answers in space provided. All problems are written in...
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Working With Coins

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students arrange coins based on their value.  In this coins lesson, students trace and record the value of each coin.  Students count up to find the total value of all the coins.
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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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Adding Coins

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this coin review worksheet, students examine a sample menu and use their addition skills to respond to 5 short answer questions regarding the cost of the items on the menu.
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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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Let's Shop! Holiday Math

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this math worksheet, students read a list of available gifts and their cost, then try to spend a total of 10 dollars without going over that amount. Students add up the items they select as they go, then find the total.
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A Dollar for Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students 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. Students determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.
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Deena's Lucky Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency.  In this money lesson, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet.  Learners also read Shel Silverstein's...
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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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Shopping for Candy

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore counting money. For this money counting and gingerbread house construction lesson, students use a calculator to determine how much and what type of candy they can buy given 25 cents.  Students construct gingerbread...