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Stamping Coins
Learners demonstrate that they can use a variety of coin combinations to make a single amount. They study all the ways to make 50 cents using coins using different coins.
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Money Math Match
Students hunt for the classmate who holds a bag of coins equal in value to theirs, study that different combinations of coins can represent the same amount of money and practice using coins to represent a set value in different ways.
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Counting Money and Making Change
Students count collections of coins and one-dollar bills. They solve problems and learn to use the dollar sign ($) with the decimal point to represent money amounts. This lesson is important as a foundation for future math concepts in...
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Right on the Money
Students are introduced to coins and bills in American currency. After watching a video, they practice making the same amount of money out of different combinations of coins and bills. Using the internet, they discover how much each...
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Money Bags
Third graders explore different combinations of coins that can be used for specified amounts of money using paper money and tree diagrams. They write money amounts in different forms. Groups utilize a tree diagram imbedded in this lesson...
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Money
Third graders review the values of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. They discuss how the different types of coins can equal the same amount. Students give examples of ways to make a given amount under $1.00. They explain what the...
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How To: Count Coins and Bills
Students discover the names and values of different monetary denominations. For this money lesson, students examine the different combinations that money can be added in to find specified amounts. The students complete worksheets based...
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Counting Money
Students learn how to count money. In this money lesson plan, students review the names and values for each coin. Students learn how to count bills and coins and how to write amounts of money. Students complete web activities...
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Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. In this money lesson, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets to...
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Money Marvels
Second graders explore various combinations of coins and dollars that add up to make given totals. They complete five different studying stations, completing a worksheet at each center, and mentally perform calculations involving...
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Trading Faces
The game of "Trading Faces" is the focus of this clever math lesson. Your mathematicians use addition to determine the values of different coin combinations by playing the game. Everything you need to implement the game, and the lesson,...
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Field Day Scarcity
Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...
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Money
Students study the value of the penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar. They demonstrate how different coin combinations equal the same amounts of money and write money amounts using the decimal point and dollar sign. They try to...
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Two of Everything
Students listen to story Two of Everything, illustrate coins they would put into the Magic Pot using paper and pencil, and solve Magic Pot riddles by viewing slide show and predicting coin totals. Students then create table listing...
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Counting Money
Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.
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Multiple Coin Combinations Lesson
Second graders identify different coin combinations that equal the same amount.
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Coin Combinations Lesson
Students identify how many coins: quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies equals a given dollar amount.
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Show Me The Money
Students use "play money" as manipulatives, moving from coin identification to coin combinations totaling one dollar. They combine classroom work with Internet sites. Students use a buddy system to practice writing and solving word...
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Counting Coins
Students identify the different types of coins. They practice buying objects in the classroom with their coins. They must use different combinations of coins in all situations.
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Quarter Combos
Students play a review game that allows them to practice identifying coins and their values and create coin combinations that equal 25 cents.
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What Coins Do They Have?
Students solve money puzzle problems while completing a coin puzzle worksheet. They answer what coins might make up the combinations.
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Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. In this coin value activity, 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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Spending Money
Students complete activities to study the value of money. In this money study instructional activity, students read a story about money and discuss how they earn money at home. Students watch a related video clip and create a class book...
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Spending Money
First graders practice adding monetary values. In this money lesson, 1st graders discuss fair trades and then use coin values to purchase items from a class store. A video titled "Blossom and Snappy Go to the Bank, Part Two".