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Lesson Plans

  • Students will play a game where they determine the value of different coin combinations.

    Grades: K, 1st, 2nd
    Subjects: Math

  • Students will answer coin related math questions using the guess, check and revise process for problem solving.

    Grades: 3rd, 4th, 5th
    Subjects: Math

  • 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.

    Grades: 4th, 5th, 6th
    Subjects: Math

  • 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.

    Grades: K, 1st, 2nd
    Subjects: Math

  • 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.

    Grades: K, 1st, 2nd
    Subjects: Math