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CoinStar
Would you rather have a bowl of dimes or a bowl of quarters? A video introduces the problem by presenting two bowls, one full of quarters and another full of dimes. Learners use information from a CoinStar receipt to calculate the number...
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
Counting Coins
Second graders identify a quarter, dime, penny, nickel, and dime. They match the coin with it's monetary value, collect data on excel spreadsheet, and create a graph in Excel. Students participate in group activities.
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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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Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts
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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What can money tell us?
Students study the physical presence, imagery and written text on a reproduction of colonial currency. They apply their research to a modern day quarter to compare and contrast two coins. In addition, they design their own colonial...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: Middle School
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members research three different ways they can earn money using money already in the bank. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and...
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What's in Your Piggy Bank?
Fill up your piggy banks! First graders find different ways to fill up cute piggy banks with 30 cents. Will they use two dimes and two nickels? Or a quarter and five pennies? Use this activity with groups to reinforce your money math...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Interest and the Number e
Mary, Mary, quite continuously, how does your money grow? Uses examples to examine the difference between simple interest and compound interest, and to take a look at different rates of compounding. Learners explore what would...
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Quarter Combos
Review money with this motivating lesson. Using a simple game, learners practice adding up coins to total $.25. This lesson comes with worksheets that could be used to cement students' knowledge of this topic.
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Choosing Coins
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders identify what coins can be used to buy a toy train. Then they count out how much money is given and write that amount in cents. Students also trace or draw the coins to match each price listed.
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Money Calculations
In this money worksheet, students calculate the total amount of quarters, dimes, and nickels in each problem. Students complete 4 problems.
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Using Quarters to Add
In this using quarters to add worksheet, 3rd graders use pictures of quarters in nine equations, then write the answer in dollars and cents.
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Everyday Mathematics: Coins
In this counting coins worksheet, students receive help from an adult to find the total value for the pictured coins. The objective is to enhance students' counting money skills and skip counting skills.
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Money Word Problems - myTestBook.com
Consider printing out this worksheet for your second and third graders! They're starting to learn about monetary value and counting coins. The questions are all formatted as multiple choice questions, so ensure your learners are fully...
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Convert Quarter and Half Dollar to Cents-Level 1
In this coin conversion worksheet, students convert a set of money amounts shown in quarter and half dollars to equal amounts shown in cents. Answers are included on page 2.
Alabama Learning Exchange
How Old is Your Money?
Elementary learners explore coin mint dates. First, they listen to the book Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst. They then sort a collection of coins according to their mint date and put them in order from oldest...
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Counting Quarters
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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Money-Dimes and Quarters
In this money worksheet, students add dimes and quarters, writing the total amount shown in each row. The worksheet has a reference web site for additional activities.
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Expressing Money
Students listen to a book read to them by their teacher and express the amount of money stated with their manipulative of play money and show different ways to express that amount of money.
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Show Me The Money
Third graders explore the value of U.S. money. For this money lesson, 3rd graders print out pictures of money from the Internet and create play money. The students will play a game in which they display the amount of money called out by...
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Adding Coins to $1.00 Worksheet #5
In this counting money worksheet, students solve ten problems in which groups of quarters, dimes and nickels are counted. Students add the coins and put the cents sign in. All sums are below one dollar.
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Ten Money Word Problems
Play with money! There are 10 word problems given; can your learners count the money in each and provide the correct answer? If possible, consider providing change for each learner to physically work out the answer.
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Sing for Your State: Tennessee quarter reverse
What's the connection between singing and a state quarter? Creative thinking and observation, perhaps. Pupils will observe and take note of all the characteristics found on the Tennessee state quarter. They will then use their...