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The Cube and Coin Challenges
Second graders participate in several games based on colored cubes and coins. They try to figure out the relative rate at which things happen and assess the concept of playing a fair game with their peers. Each student compare familiar...
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Valentine Shop
Students use Coin Critters software to practice coin recognition. Students complete a printing project for the cover of Valentine cards and use monthly calendars or a hundreds chart to count by 5's and 10's. Students use KidPix to create...
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Estimation
Third graders practice using money. In this estimation instructional activity, 3rd graders show their ability to figure out the cost of lunch. Students then set up a "store" and students choose the products and estmate the cost. Students...
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Mental Math for Adding Decimals
Fifth graders work in groups to practice adding decimals. In this adding decimals lesson, 5th graders call out different money amounts to each other and mentally add the coins called out. Students take turns calling out and adding the...
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Making Choices
Second graders explore financial decision making. In this introductory economics lesson, 2nd graders listen to the book Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst, and discuss making financial choices based on wants and...
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Money Game
Fourth graders give change of one dollar. In this decimal and fractions lesson plan, 4th graders receive fake coins and discuss what they could purchase with them. Students go for a walk and spend one dollar and get their purchase if...
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Math -- Money
Young scholars identify a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and a half dollar. They examine the value of each coin and its equivalents (to quarter/dollar). After pairing up with a classmate, each one drills the other one on each coin.
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Gifts from Grandma, Variation 3
There are three money word problems in this activity, each one is set in the same context. The first asks what was the total amount grandma spent, the second how many grandchildren grandma has, and the third asks how much grandma spent...
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How Rich Is Rich?
Second graders read "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich, Last Sunday" by Judith Viorst. They watch a video of the book and identify and record amounts of money mentioned in the story. They investigate money-related websites.
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Musical Note Value
Students will identify each symbol by sight stating the value of each. They will use cardboard notes to who what they have learned so far about the note values creating 4 and 6 count phrases.
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Ten Pennies
Students play logic and strategy games with pennies. In this pennies worksheet, students play one game called 'From counting to arithmetic', and one called 'Counting and mental math'.
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Coin Hunt and It's Variations
Students play a game designed to give them practice identifying coin names and values. They form two lines with coins spread out in between the teams and when the teacher calls out a coin, the two in front scramble to find the specified...
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Introduction of the Quarter
Students discuss the quarter. In this money lesson, students find the value and characteristics of the quarter. They see how many pennies it takes to equal one quarter.
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Mad Scientist Vocabulary Review
In this mad scientist vocabulary review, young scholars play a game to practice their spelling and vocabulary skills. Two students play charades, one must draw the word and the other identify it and write it correctly. Young scholars...
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Gifts from Grandma, Variation 1
Composed of three word problems, this math activity exposes young mathematicians to relationships present in multiplication and division. The first problem is most useful with a tape diagram in which learners are working with equal-sized...
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Counting by 10s, 5s, and 1s
Learners practice counting by 10s, 5s, and 1s in order to prepare for counting and adding the values of coins.
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Five Dollars
Sixth graders catch and throw balls at all levels high, medium, and low while counting their points up from the balls that they catch. They are asked the skills that they have already explored in softball from the previous class. ...
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Medieval Games
Students participate in a theme-based field day base on Medieval games. They integrate the field day activities into an academic study of medieval times.
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Pennies and Nickels and Dimes...Oh, My!
Students play a game in which they determine the number of cents that equal a nickel, dime, and quarter. They identify which set of coins has more, fewer, or the same amount while also counting each collection and writing the...
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Visualization of Rhythms in 4/4
First graders investigate musical notes. For this music lesson, 1st graders discuss the values of each note by counting the beats accordingly.
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Making Change
Students investigate how to make change when purchasing items. In this making change lesson, students examine a scenario to calculate the correct change. Students play Bingo based on information and calculations to determine the amount...
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Shopping Spree
Sixth graders examine currency by completing monetary equations. In this economics lesson, 6th graders participate in a numbers experiment where they roll a die and earn money based on their roll. Students compete for their fictitious...
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Budget Making
Students develop a budget for spending and saving. For this economics lesson, students create a budget based on personal, family and government income. They discuss jobs at home and allowances. They discuss how they manage their money...
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Handling Data: Probability, Tree Diagrams
Clean, but captivating, two online simulations demonstrate probability for middle schoolers. They can choose the number of coins and tosses and watch as the results pile up. They can choose from a variety of spinner types and the number...