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Give Me the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students view a money transaction on video and identify the steps involved in making a purchase and calculating change. They write out original money math problems and exchange them with classmates.
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How Much Money?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders count money.  For this money lesson, 6th graders count sets of coins and dollar bills.  During specified activities, they total orders and calculate the amont of change a customer should receive.  Students...
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Understanding the Effects of Currency Exchange Rates

For Students 6th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students match the currency with the country of origin. They convert between that currency and the US using a foreign exchange conversion table. There are 35 questions.
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Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. For this money lesson, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets...
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Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students learn how to count money.  In this money lesson, 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...
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Buggin' Out (Identifying and Adding Amounts of Money)

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore consumer math by participating in estimate exercises. In this currency lesson, students identify and define each piece of U.S. currency and their value to the monetary system. Students complete several money worksheets...
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A Lesson to Accompany "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy"

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the role of money in the colonial economy by participating in a trading activity. In this colonial economy lesson plan, students complete an activity to learn about colonial trade and what happens when there is a...
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Coins to Bills!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice using money at a grocery store. For this money lesson, students get familiar with grocery store ads and work in pairs to use these ads to select food items to purchase using money manipulatives. Students practice being...
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A World of Money

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the traditions related to the creation of national currencies. The role currency plays in shaping a national or regional identity and the influences that the designers of world currency exert are examined in this lesson.
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Scoot for Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars rotate through a group of centers counting the coins that are in a cup placed at each spot. After completing the entire circuit, papers are graded as a whole class and each student gets to spend the money in their cup at a...
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Visualization of Rhythms in 4/4

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 1st graders discuss the values of each note by counting the beats accordingly.
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Systems of Linear Equations

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students use the elimination method to solve systems of linear equations.  The one page worksheet contains six multiple choice questions.  Answers are included. 
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Let's Learn About Money

For Students 1st - 2nd
Rather than breaking their piggy banks, your students can use this worksheet to demonstrate their understanding of the fixed value of coins. Class members add the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to determine the total...
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Counting Quarters

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this counting coins worksheet, students examine the 6 sets of coins pictured and record the value of each of the sets shown.
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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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Money, Commercial Banking, and Interest

For Teachers 12th
Stdents explore the operation of the commercial banking system and the mechanics of money creation through the lending process. They investigate various interest rates to develop the relationship between interest rates and risk and...
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Money Bags

For Teachers 1st
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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Coins

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe and demonstrate how to count the value of assorted coins. They discuss a story from their Math Storybook, and as a class solve a variety of problems using activity sheets. Students then independently complete a...
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How Much Money Do I Have?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins instructional activity, students solve 4 problems in which a set of coins is counted. Students write the total value of the set of coins. Included on this page are pennies, nickels and dimes only.
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Place Value: Identifying Place Value up to Ten Digit Numerals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore place value up to ten-digit numerals. Students will listen to information on the place value system and use money to bid on prizes, accurately explaining the value of their money using the place value system. They will...
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Math -- Money

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students 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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Can You Match the Coin's Amount?

For Students K - 1st
In this money learning exercise, students draw a line from the picture of the coin to the value in cents. There are five problems on this page.
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Dimes and Pennies: Draw Coins

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 6 problems that require them to draw the value of the coins in each of the problems.
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Two of Everything

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...