Lesson Plans

Students will make predictions about the probability of a spun nickel landing on either heads or tails. Students will then test their predictions through experimentation.

Students will apply their knowledge of adding coins to a real life situation when they create different coin combinations to buy their daily snack.

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

Students will create different coin combinations for a single amount.

Students will estimate the number of pennies it takes to fill outlines of various basic shapes.

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 work in groups to examine a jar of coins to make both "guesstimations" and more precise estimations

After defining spending and saving and discussing related habits, the class takes a poll to see how their peers like to manage money. Then students graph their findings and discuss the survey results.

Students will practice identifying coins and their values away from their desks using physical motion. 

Students will observe the physical attributes, such as size, height, weight, and length, of coins. Students will play a game to compare coins to one another.