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The Case of the Broken Piggy Bank
Students list the value of a quarter, dime, nickel, and penny in dollar form. They find the total monetary value of a set of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. They calculate change received on a purchase.
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Learn to Earn When You Tend to Spend
Learners examine spending and earning, and calculate change up to a dollar. They view and participate in demonstrations of earning and spending math problems, complete a worksheet, and play a game in pairs that simulates banking.
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Rolling For Money
Second graders examine several coins to determine their values. Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters are counted. Music is added to the lesson to enhance the experience.
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Count, Compare and Make Change
Second graders review the value of coins and how to make change. In this counting money lesson, 2nd graders compare coins, practice making change, and review the value of coins using hands-on activities.
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A Penny for Abe
Students explore Abraham Lincoln through stories and poems. They also explore him being on the penny.
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Count Coins and Bills
Students study the names and values of different denominations of paper money, count sets of money that include both coins and bills. They complete a money chart, read and solve word problems.
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Seeing Numbers In Tens And Ones
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
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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Smart Shopping
In this exact change worksheet, 3rd graders look over a price list and circle each item that Danielle can buy with 3 quarters, 2 dimes, a nickel and a penny. Students find five groups of items that Danielle can buy together with the...
Texas Commission on the Arts
The Quarter Fold
Little ones identify the US quarter and explore the concept of one-fourth or one-quarter. Using real coins or coin manipulatives, they divide a square piece of paper into quarters, discuss halves and quarters, and create a design that...
Curated OER
My Money
Young scholars identify and interpret the relationships between various components of currency, discusses the uses of money, and provides advanced lessons on making change. They also identify the various ways that money is used and how...
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Money and Coins
In this coins worksheet, learners review and count four different types of coins: penny, dime, nickel and quarter. Students view the word name, cent number and actual dollar sign for each denomination.
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Coin Connections
A wonderful lesson plan on identifying the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter awaits your young mathematicians. They engage in a multi-session lesson plan which allows them to practice using the values of each coin in worksheets and...
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Barter vs. Money
First graders listen to the book, Sheep in a Shop, that leads them to think about making financial decisions, trading, and the barter system. After the book is read aloud, a discussion ensues about some of the things that the sheep...
DK Publishing
Real-Life Word Problems, Part 6
Bring math alive with these five word problems. Using multiplication and division in a space for writing equations, fourth graders solve the word problems and practice writing out the answers in a separate area. Helpful as either a...
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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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Coins
In this money worksheet, students cut paper money to be used for manipulatives in money exercises. Ten pennies, ten nickels, ten dimes and five quarters are included.
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Money
In this counting change worksheet, students look at 7 rows of various coins and then add up each row of coins. Students put their total amounts on the lines at the end of each row.
Noetic Learning
Counting Change
In this online/interactive consumer math worksheet, students read a statement telling the amount of sales and the amount paid and make change showing the number of dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies needed. Students solve 2...
Curated OER
Sort and Graph Coins
In this sorting and graphing practice worksheet, students cut out the coin pictures, glue 1 in each of 4 columns, and color in the graph with the correct number of each of the coins shown.
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Matching Coins and Amounts
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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Money: Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter
In this counting coins worksheet, learners identify the coins in the 7 problems and then count the total money amount for each set.
Illustrative Mathematics
Money in the Piggy Bank
It's time to crack open that piggy bank and see what's inside. First, count up the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, identifying what fraction of them are dimes. Then calculate the total value of the coins, writing another fraction...
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Pay the bill
In this pay the bill worksheet, students figure out how many coins and bills it will take to pay the bills. Students are given 60 bills to pay.