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Making Cents of Fractions and Decimals
Students explore decimals and fractions using groups of 100 pennies. By classifying the pennies in different ways, there are an unlimited number of ways to learn fractions, decimals, and place value in money. This is a good, hands-on...
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Money Names and Value
Using graphics, this activity has learners identify the name of each bill and its value. This would be an easy way for students to review this concept. This could be used in conjunction with a review sheet on coins.
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Teaching Students About Money
Classroom activities can teach young students the value of money.
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Money Match
Playing a game can be educational, pupils use this matching activity to identify coins and their values. This is a great way to have learners practice their money sense.
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Coins Lesson Plan
First graders identify different coins and use their values in combination with each other to buy different objects. In this coins lesson plan, 1st graders identify the value of a quarter, dime, nickel, and penny, and use them to buy items.
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Alexander Used to Be Rich
Reading Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, launches this activity appropriate for children who recognize coins and have been introduced to coin values. Using addition and subtraction skills, the class tracks Alexander’s spending...
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Recognizing Coins
Help your class identify the different pence and pounds used in Great Britain. Each slide contains an image, the name, and value of British coinage. Great if you're teaching in Britain, if you want to extend your American class's...
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Comparing Values: Comparisons Between Musical Notation and Money
Students identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school, specifically math, are interrelated with those of music.
Advocates for Human Rights
Human Rights Defined
Class members continue their investigation of the factors that influence migration with a lesson on human rights. As they examine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and selected US Constitutional Amendments, learners compare the...
EngageNY
The Mathematics Behind a Structured Savings Plan
Make your money work for you. Future economists learn how to apply sigma notation and how to calculate the sum of a finite geometric series. The skill is essential in determining the future value of a structured savings plan with...
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Playing with Money (From the New Zealand Point of View)
Students explore the exchange rates for five countries. They identify the units of currency of a number of countries. Students convert money amounts accurately from New Zealand dollars to another currency. They graph currency...
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A Trip to the Toy Store
First graders recognize and identify the value of a penny, nickel and dime. They spend play money in a simulated toy store and match their coins to the purchase price of a toy of their choice.
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Playing with Money (From the Other Point of View)
Students explore exchange rates. They identify the units of currency of a number of countries. Students convert money amounts accurately. They graph currency fluctuations and interpret graphs.
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Money Bags
First graders identify coins and their value. Using a mixed set of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, they sort the coins and identify the name of each coin and the value of one coin in each set. As the teacher announces a given...
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Let's Find Out About Money
First graders investigate the uses and development of money as part of the study of finance. They focus upon the recognition of different coins and identify the value of each. Then students solve problems involving money and coins.
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The Dollar Cookie
Second graders recognize, count, and write money amounts using the cent symbol and identify equivalent amounts of money. In this money lesson plan, 2nd graders add money amounts using plastic coins and magnetic money.
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Coins
In this counting coins worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 6 problems that require them to identify the value of the money shown.
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Coins 2
In this counting coins instructional activity, students use their problem solving skills to solve 6 problems that require them to identify the value of the money shown.
Charleston School District
Pre-Test Unit 3: Functions
How does an input affect an output? Assess your learners' ability to answer this question using this pre-test. Scholars answer questions about the basics of a function. Topics include determining if a table or statement represents a...
Judicial Branch of California
Public Service Announcement: Civic Responsibility
Get your message across. Scholars use their prior knowledge and artistic skills to create public service announcements. The project is designed to explain the importance of civic harmony and the responsibility of all citizens to...
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A Visit to the Mint
Emerging consumers recognize the types and denominations of U.S. currency. They listen to a guest speaker (if possible) and view a video. They create their own money using styrofoam and a toothpick for engraving. Consider creating...
Federal Reserve Bank
Could It Happen Again?
The final lesson plan in a series of six about the Great Depression focuses on the Federal Reserve's role in stabilizing the economy.
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Cool Cookie Math
Second graders identify the value of coins and make change from a dollar using different amounts. They are given story problems and use a fake shop in which they can buy things in which they have to determine how much change they would...
Charleston School District
Equations of Linear Functions
Teaching linear function relationships using contextual information is beneficial to pupils' understanding. The lesson uses problem solving to build linear functions given different information for each problem. This is the second...