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Making Sense of Dollars and Cents
Teaching the money system to youngsters through games, literature, and real-world simulations
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Great Graph!
Here is a fantastic lesson counting coins, interpreting graphs, and the concept of "greater than" and "less than." Young mathematicians utilize worksheets embedded in the plan in order to practice these concepts. The worksheets are...
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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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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-If You Made A Million
Students read If You Made A Million by David M. Schwartz. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of earning, saving and spending money. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social...
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Unit Conversion Problems
For this unit conversion worksheet, students solve 15 problems by using conversion factors to find their answers. They show all their work and express their answers in scientific notation with the proper number of significant figures.
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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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Making Decisions with Probability
Students explore probability. They discuss the likelihood of events happening and the terms certain, impossible, likely and unlikely. Students discuss various situations and the likelihood of that situation occurring.
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The Euro: Money Changes Everything
Students begin the lesson by being introduced to the currency of the Euro. As a class, they must decide which is worth more, the euro or a United States dollar. Using the internet, they determine the current exchange rate and complete...
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Class Flow: Money
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to help familiarize first grade students with the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. They will learn a poem to help remember what each coin looks like and its value. They will also work...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Obolus
A small coin of ancient Greece, in later times of silver, the sixth part of an Attic drachma, equal to 2.5 cents; multiples and sub-multiples of this coin were also used, and pieces of the value of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.5 oboli, and 1/2, 1/3,...