Lesson Plans

Students will recognize coins and their values and count coin groups.

Students will play a game in which they determine the number of cents (pennies) that equal a nickel, dime, and quarter. The students will also identify which set of coins has more, fewer, or the same amount while also counting each collection and writing the corresponding value.

Using coins as the standard of measure, students will estimate and check weights of classroom objects.

Students will use addition to determine values of coin combinations.

Students will begin to understand how money passes through many different hands. Students will explore plot organization by designing a flow chart for a story about money changing hands.

Students will solve story problems involving money. They will use higher level critical thinking skills to develop their own strategies for solving the problems.

Students will solve story problems that involve addition, subtraction,multiplication, and division with decimals. Students will representparts of a dollar as a fraction, a decimal, and a percentage.

Students review coin identification and learn the value of each coin.

Students will develop an understanding of fractions as parts of a whole.

Students will create a timeline to show the sequence of change that the "tails" side of a quarter has gone through.