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Learn to Earn When you Tend to Spend

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Analyzing and understanding word problems is extremely important. Pupils learn that in money problems, earn usually means you add and spend usually means you subtract. They will solve a series of money-related word problems, label coins,...
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Ch-Ch-Ching Cafe: Play Restaurant Make Change

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make change by participating in a role-play restaurant activity. In this making change lesson, 4th graders use their math skills to compare prices and compute bills in a role play restaurant activity.
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Making Change - Bills And Coins

For Students 2nd - 4th
Here is an interactive instructional activity that allows learners to practice counting change with bills and coins, make change for a dollar, and practice their subtraction skills. The bills used are ones, fives, tens, twenties, and...
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Who's On First?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Have you ever considered why the number 10 is so important to us? That's what learners do here. They explore patterns formed by powers of ten and by decimals, convert units of measure within the metric system, and express these in the...
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Lesson Four - Making Change

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept. 
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The Big Buck Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change, and adding and subtracting money. In this money lesson, students listen to a reading of The Big Buck Adventure by Shelley Gil. They access teacher assigned web sites to practice making change, adding...
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Worksheet
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Piggy Bank Math Game

For Students 2nd - 5th
For this money and coins worksheet, students participate in playing a money game that incorporates the process of making change. Students play the money game with a deck of seventy-five cards that have piggy banks with various amounts of...
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Making Change

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate how to make change when purchasing items.  For this making change lesson, students examine a scenario to calculate the correct change.  Students play Bingo based on information and calculations to determine the...
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Worksheet
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Act it Out

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this money worksheet, students solve 5 word problems where they are given an amount of money in written form and make a list to help organize the information in order to add the coin values. Students make change in 4 of the problems.
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Making Change for $1 And Identifying Different Bills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this making change for one dollar and identifying different bills worksheet, young scholars color the coins needed to make exactly $1.00 on six different lines. Students also examine how to utilize a chart to solve money problems.
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Scoot for Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students rotate through a group of centers counting the coins that are in a cup placed at each spot. After completing the entire circuit, papers are graded as a whole class and each student gets to spend the money in their cup at a class...
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Making Change

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Pupils make change from play money they use based on prices mentioned in a book they read. In this making change lesson plan, students use subtraction to find their change amount.
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Worksheet
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Place Value: Making Change with Canadian Money

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this place value:  making change with Canadian money worksheet, students use a spreadsheet and certain coins to practice and record how much change would be given from a $5 bill.  A parent or tutor adjusts the questions to the child's...
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Worksheet
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Money Matters

For Students 9th - 11th
In this systems of equations worksheet, students write and solve a system of equations to find the number of coins in the money problem. The steps to the solution are included on the page.
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Worksheet
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Paying the Exact Amount

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this problem solving skills activity, students solve 6 math word problems that require them to add and subtract using monetary amounts.
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SPENDING: Maintaining the Skill of Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of maintaining money. In this personal finance lesson plan, 4th graders earn "money" for cleaning their classroom desks. Students spend the "money" in the classroom and practice making change.
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Piggin' out with Money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders manage money. For this money math lesson, 3rd graders read Pigs Will be Pigs. Students then use manipulatives to practice adding monetary amounts and making change. Students also practice working with money on selected...
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Interactive
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Making Change with Coins

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online interactive making change with coins learning exercise, students read examples and use their problem solving skills in order to solve to 24 problems.
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Worksheet
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More Change

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this making change worksheet, students complete a chart in which change is calculated after purchasing two toys with one dollar.
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Worksheet
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Ice Cream Treat Math

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money worksheet, students read 2 scenarios and respond to 4 questions pertaining to counting money and making change.
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Worksheet
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Pizza Treat Math

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this counting money worksheet, students read a scenario and respond to 3 questions pertaining to counting money and making change.
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Worksheet
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Making Change- Working With Money

For Students 4th - 7th
In this story problem making change worksheet students read a one page description of money use by a child; then solve 6 questions based on the passage.
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Worksheet
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Fundraiser

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this money problems worksheet, students solve 4 story problems that pertain to buying merchandise and making change in a booth at a school fair.
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Making Change with Dollars anc Cents

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders increase their knowledge of how to make change with dollars and cents by correctly identifying coins along with their values and then using coins to make an assigned amount which will be written on envelopes. They then...