Lesson Plans

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 add pennies, nickels, and dimes and will organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples..

Students will use their abilities to recognize coins and their values in this game that focuses on locomotor skills (skip, slide, gallop, run, jump). This game also requires students to add coin values.

Using Amy Axelrod's Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money as a reference, students calculate how much money the pigs in the book find and spend. Then they determine how else to spend the money at a restaurant and create posters showing their menu orders.

Students discuss and research an individual or event from a commemorative coin. They then use the information to write acrostic poems, creating stand-up accordion books to display the poems.

Students will review coins and their values, as well as practice skip counting using coins.

After reading an appropriate children's math text, students will review same type (denomination) coin sets, and will build same type sets equaling fifty cents.

Students will apply mathematics strategies of counting, adding, and subtracting decimal amounts to create change for a dollar.

Students will explore the purchasing power of the half dollar. Students will collect and graph prices over time, and then write math problems to determine the percent increase between periods.

Using real or paper coins, students will discuss what they know about coins, coin values, and place their coins in value order.