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.

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 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 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 use addition to determine values of coin combinations.

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

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

Teams of students research commemorative coin honorees and share the reasons for the recognition with the class. Then the teams select individuals they believe deserve to be on a coin, write short essays explaining their selection, and illustrate coin designs.

Students will play a game to help them develop an appreciation for statistical methods as a powerful means for decision making.