What Coins Do They Have?

A very simple instructional activity, this handout includes a model conversation and 12 different time expressions such as "It's five after (two)" and "It's quarter to (three)". After studying the model conversation and the time...

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...

Which coins do you need? Scholars are faced with a challenge: using only three coins they must find the exact amount needed for six items. The coins are standard US currency and are pictured at the top, however their value is not listed....

Don't be thrown off by the formatting here- the mathematical concept is solid. Learners read a story with a magic doubling pot that creates twice what is thrown into it. They first practice with an in-and-out chart, recording the result...

Math can be a work of art! Reach your artistic pupils as they explore angle measures. A creative set of five problems of varying levels has young learners study interior and exterior angle measures of polygons. The introductory levels...

Kill two birds with one stone (as they say). Your class can practice problem solving skills, basic addition and subtraction, as well as work on coin values. This worksheet includes six money related word problems to solve.

Clever! Participants don square-foot cardboard shoes to mark out the rain garden plot that they have spent the last few weeks designing. In this way, they are practicing scale modeling as well! Note that this lesson is part of a unit,...

Do all quadrilaterals have right angles? Investigate attributes of these shapes with geometers, starting by finding four-sided shapes in the classroom. Learners conduct a think-pair-share search for quadrilaterals they can see then...

Young consumers identify U.S. coins, watch a video clip about the differences in the four U.S. coins, sort real coins by attributes. They also graph collections of their coins.

Learners demonstrate that they can use a variety of coin combinations to make a single amount. They study all the ways to make 50 cents using coins using different coins.