Lesson Plans

Students will play a game in which they create monetary amounts using different coin combinations.

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

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

Students will use various coin denominations to explore the concept of fractions.

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.

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.

The student will determine the probability of a given event using concreteexamples. Students will describe events using terms such as likely, unlikely, certain, and impossible. The student will convert fractions to decimals, decimals to percents, and percents to fractions.

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 manipulate ordered pairs in the first quadrant of a coordinate plane.