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 Mathematics Teach students about time and change with lessons that bring history to life. To view a plan, simply click its title, or search all lesson plans at the bottom of the page.
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After briefly discussing coin collecting, the class takes a poll to see how many students collect coins. Then students create a graph showing all responses and discuss the survey results.
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After briefly discussing spending and saving 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.
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After discussing how Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey (not the bald eagle) to be our national bird, students graph their preferences and discuss the survey results.
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Students build a stack of pennies as tall as possible, recording the number of pennies they are able to stack before the tower falls. Then, sharing answers, they determine the average number of pennies that could be stacked.
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Students play a game with coins and then use reasoning skills to develop a strategy for winning the game.
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Students learn about the first Peter the Mint Eagle, who lived at the Philadelphia Mint from 1830 to 1836. They then determine how many months Peter was there and use pictures, numbers, equations, and/or words to explain how they came up with the answer.
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After learning how many coins a new press can strike in a minute, students calculate the number of new coins that can be made in a single day. Students then share their problem-solving strategies with the class, using them to make additional calculations.
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Using Judith Viorst's book "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" as a reference, students use several computation techniques to calculate how Alexander spends all of his money in no time at all.
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Using Amy Axelrod's "Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money" as a reference, students calculate how much money the pigs find and spend in the book. Then they determine how else to spend the money at a restaurant and create posters showing their menu orders.
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After learning the dollar value of filled coin bags, students calculate how many quarters are in a $1,000 bag. They then explain their problem-solving strategy using pictures, numbers, equations, and/or words.
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Students will learn that fifty cents in the past could buy much more than it can today. They will construct graphs showing how the buying power of fifty cents has changed over time. They will also graph how the price of a product has changed over time. Students will also write percentage increase rate problems.
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Students will create different coin combinations for a single amount.
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Using their knowledge of place value and number sense, students can play this counting game in small groups, or as a whole class, to see who will be the first person to reach 50 cents.
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Students will research ancient civilizations, and develop story problems using symbols and coins from those times. Students will then retell these story problems using modern terms and coins.
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Early elementary students will examine the features and values of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
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Students will correctly identify the each coin's value, and will add pennies and nickels to arrive at a designated amount.
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Students will practice counting by 10s, 5s, and 1s in order to prepare for counting and adding the values of coins.
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Students will add pennies, nickels and dimes and will organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples.
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Students will apply their knowledge of adding coins to a real life situation when they create different coin combinations to buy their daily snack.
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Students will work in groups to examine a jar of coins to make both "guesstimations" and more precise estimations!
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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.
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Students will use various coin denominations to explore the concept of fractions.
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This math game invites students to use practice their addition and subtraction skills while building upon their knowledge of coin values. The activity can be modified for older children to allow them to practice their multiplication skills.
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Students will estimate the number of pennies it takes to fill outlines of various basic shapes.
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Students will play a game in which they create monetary amounts using different coin combinations.
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Students will determine their height in cents (pennies) by developing a measurement standard.
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Students will play a coin identification game to familiarize themselves with coin values. They will add coin values to determine the game’s winner.
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Students will play a game involving the creation of different coin combinations using cents (pennies), nickels, dimes and quarters.
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Students will select low-cost food items from a grocery store circular that reflect each of the six food groups. They will then create coin combinations to show the costs of each of their selected items.
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Students will play a game in which they count out the coin costs for different labeled classroom items.
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Students will play a game where they determine the value of different coin combinations.
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Students will answer coin related math questions using the guess, check and revise process for problem solving.
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Students will apply mathematics strategies of counting, adding, and subtracting decimal amounts to create change for a dollar.
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After reading an appropriate children’s math text, students will review same type (denomination) coin sets, and will build same type coin sets equaling fifty cents.
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Students will explore mixed (different denomination) coin sets and will create different total amounts using what they learn.
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Students will learn and demonstrate that they can use a variety of coin combinations to make a single amount.
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Students will match coins (of different denominations) to different amounts.
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Students will play a game to help them develop an appreciation for statistical methods as a powerful means for decision making.
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Students will use skills of observation, recording, and calculation to provide an overview of years of cents (pennies) in circulation in the local area.
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In this multiple day lesson, students will search for coins with a metal detector, and will plot their discovery location on a grid. Students will using coordinates to represent locations of coins found. |