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Count On It!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars investigate money. In this consumer math lesson, students use coins, identify their value, then group them in various ways to equal a dollar.
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Sorting Foods

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
A basic instructional activity on sorting awaits your charges. They sort a variety of foods while using the food pyramid, and identify the role of the food guide pyramid in helping people eat a healthy diet. Learners use an internet tool...
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Math Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st
The students will be able to identify the characteristics and the value of a penny and a nickel. The students will also be able to count groups of pennies and nickels. The lesson uses multiple intelligences.
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Pocket Change

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice identifying coins and their values. In this money identification lesson, students play a game, where they toll a coin, determine the value, and compare totals to win.
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What is Money?

For Teachers K
Students identify the names of coins and grasp their relative values in terms of purchasing power. They engage in activities and games that help them acquire this knowledge.
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Combating Corrosion

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Study corrosion on bronze statues with a hands-on activity. As pupils place a penny in water with salt, they observe the changes in the penny throughout a period of a week. They then analyze the pre-conservation and the...
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Saving Makes Cents

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify ways families save money. In this financial instructional activity, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and discuss ways to save money. Students identify coin values and practice counting money.
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Coin Identification

For Teachers K
Students identify each coin. For this coin identification lesson, students note the pictures that are on each coin. Students are shown pictures that are on each coin and recall the coin by using the pictures.
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How Many? How Much?

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize and learn the value of coins. For this instructional activity on money, 1st graders read the book Monster Money by Grace Maccarone, discuss the role of money in society, identify various coins, and explore making...
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Let's Find Out About Money

For Teachers 1st
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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Value of Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine a collection of coins to discover their value. In this value of money lesson, 2nd graders identify the amount of money represented by each coin. Students use a worksheet to complete story problems involving...
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Representing Rational Numbers

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore rational numbers. For this fractions, decimals, and percents lesson, 7th graders identify and compare equivalencies between fractions, decimals, and percents. Students use hands-on activities to investigate the...
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Matching Coins and Amounts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students recognize coins and understand their values. In this coins lesson, students identify sets of coins and match them with their value.
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What's the Big Idea? Exercise 2

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this online interactive categorization worksheet, learners examine 12 groups of 4 words each. Students identify a title for each set of words.
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Valentine Money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify money as decimals. They spend and receive change in a real-life situation.
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Counting U. S. Money

For Students 5th - 6th
In this counting money learning exercise, students identify the value of coins and determine their total. When given the total, they identify the number of nickels, dimes or pennies. This one-page learning exercise contains 11 problems.
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Equivalent Pals (Fractions)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore equivalent fractions. In groups, classmates follow instructions to tear paper into fractional parts. Students brainstorm real life items that are equivalent. They model and identify equivalent fractions using...
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Independent Practice 2: Elementary Probability

For Students 7th - 8th
In this probability worksheet, students identify the probability of given events. Problems include topics such as determining the probability of a tossed coin, picking a specified card from a deck of cards, spinning a wheel, and rolling...
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Seeing Numbers In Tens And Ones

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders develop the skill of place values up to the tens place. They practice identifying the values of 2 digit numbers and writing the correlating values with counting. They use the example of money to make the lesson more...
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Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.
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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...
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Will it SINK or Float?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students predict whether objects will sink or float in water. They classify objects as sinking or floating in water. Students identify and explain similarities between objects that sink and float.
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Cool Cookie Math

For Teachers 2nd
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...
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Coins Values

For Students K - 1st
In this early childhood problem solving worksheet, students read 6 statements and then identify the coin that matches the information provided in each statement.