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Money Math Unit Plan
Name: Emily Flower
Setting/Grade Level: High School 9 -12
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Theme/Title: Money Math
Subjects: Functional Math
Composite of Class: Pre-K through 3rd grade instructional level
Learning Goals and Objectives
What student learning goals/objectives Which indicators of the Arizona
do you have for this lesson? content standards does this lesson
address?
Week One:
Monday: Students will be able to identify a Arizona Mathematics Standard 1st
penny, dime, nickel, and quarter and Grade:
demonstrate their knowledge of coin
amounts. *The highly proficient student can create
*(I can identify a penny, dime, quarter, and a picture of an amount of coins up to
nickel and determine the coin amounts.) $1.00 using the least amount of
manipulatives (G2.1M.C1.P05-for G.1).
Tuesday: Students will review new
vocabulary and will be able to identify a
penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and
demonstrate their knowledge of coin
amounts.
*(I can identify a penny, dime, quarter, and
nickel and determine the coin amounts.)
Wednesday: Students will review new
vocabulary and will be able to differentiate
between the types and parts of a coin.
*(I can tell the difference between a penny,
nickel, quarter, and dime and know the
difference between the heads and tails.)
Thursday: Students will be able to determine
how many nickels and dimes equal one
dollar.
*(I can decide how many nickels and dimes
equal one dollar.)
Friday: Students will be able to determine
how many pennies and quarters equal one
dollar.
*(I can decide how many pennies and
quarters equal one dollar.)
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Week Two:
Monday: Students will be able to determine
how many of each coin (penny, nickel,
quarter, and dime) equal one dollar.
*(I can draw a picture of each coin worth
$1.00.)
Tuesday: Students will be able to separate
mixed change based on the coin and add up
the total for each coin.
*(I can find the value of quarters, nickels,
pennies, and dimes.)
Wednesday: Students will be able to
separate mixed change based on the coin
and add up the total for each coin.
*(I can find the value of quarters, nickels,
pennies, and dimes.)
Thursday: Students will be able to identify
how to make a given amount of cents.
*(I can show how to make a given amount of
cents.)
Friday: Students will be able to purchase an
item for $1.00 using quarters.
*(I can buy something for $1.00 using
quarters.)
Week Three:
Monday: Students will be able to identify
how many quarters are in $1.00.
*(I can identify how many quarters are in
$1.00).
Tuesday: Students will be able to identify
how many quarters are in $1.00.
*(I can identify quarters and know if I have
$1.00 in quarters.).
Wednesday: Students will be able to skip
count by 25 to find the total value of
quarters.
*(I can skip count quarters to find their total
value.)
Thursday: Students will be able to skip
count by 25 to find the total value of
quarters.
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*(I can skip count quarters to find their total
value.)
Friday: Students will be able to skip count by
25 to find the total value of quarters.
*(I can skip count quarters to find their total
value.)
Week Four:
Monday: Students will be able to identify the
different coins and their amounts and count
by 25 to find the total value of quarters.
*(I can identify coins and their value and can
skip count quarters to find their total value.)
Tuesday: Students will be able to exchange
$1.00 for four quarters.
*(I can trade dollars for quarters.)
Wednesday: Students will be able to
purchase an item for $1.00 using only
quarters.
*(I can buy something for $1.00 using
quarters.)
Thursday: Students will be able to identify
how many quarters are needed to purchase
an item.
*(I can decide how many quarters I need to
buy something.)
Friday: Students will be able to purchase an
item for $1.00 using only quarters.
*(I can buy something for $1.00 using
quarters.)
Daily Agendas
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Week One:
Monday:
-Bellwork
-Lesson about different coins and their worth
-Whiteboard partner activity: one partner shows a coin, the other partner writes its worth
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Tuesday:
-Bellwork
-Review Vocabulary (penny, nickel, quarter, dime, heads, tails, cents)
-Worksheet: Identifying coins and their worth
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Wednesday:
-Bellwork
-Activity using Coin Folder- match coins with descriptions and match with heads/tails
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Thursday:
-Bellwork
-Lesson about how many nickels and dimes are in $1.00 (use coin folder)
-Whiteboard activity: I give a coin; you tell me how many are needed to make $1.00
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Friday:
-Bellwork
-Lesson about how many pennies and quarters are in $1.00 (use coin folder)
- Whiteboard activity: I give a coin; you tell me how many are needed to make $1.00
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Week Two:
Monday:
-Bellwork
-Review how many of each coin are in $1.00
-Worksheet-drawing picture of $1.00 using coins
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Tuesday:
-Bellwork
-Brain Pop Jr. video on counting coins
-Whiteboard activity practicing counting coins
-Blog with a Buddy
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-Clean Up
Wednesday:
-Bellwork
-Review coins
-You add the coins worksheet
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Thursday:
-Bellwork
-Review counting coins
-You show me how to make _______¢.
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Friday:
-Bellwork
-Review 4 quarters=$1.00
-Shop
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Week Three:
Monday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Tuesday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-Worksheet
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Wednesday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-How to count quarters
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Thursday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-Count quarters
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
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Friday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-Worksheet
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Week Four:
Monday:
-Bellwork
-Review coins and amounts
-Review counting quarters
-Blog with a Buddy
-Clean Up
Tuesday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-Exchange dollars for quarters (for tomorrow’s activity)
-Blog with a buddy
-Clean Up
Wednesday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-Buy snack from vending machine or item from bookstore
-Blog with a buddy
-Clean Up
Thursday:
-Bellwork
-Review
-Worksheet
-Blog with a buddy
-Clean Up
Friday:
-Discuss rules and expectation on a class trip
-Load up
-Visit Wal-Mart
-Students purchase one item for less than $1.00
-Go back to school
Instructional Tool: Coin Folder
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This is an instructional tool that I made for each student in my class to help them
learn certain concepts related to coins. The coin folder provides students a fun and
hands on experience to learn many valuable concepts.
On the far left side of the picture, it shows a catchy poem that students can learn
in order to remember identifying characteristics for each coin and each coin’s worth.
Next to the poem are real coins velcroed onto the folder. At the top, you can see the
labels “heads” and “tails” with each coin in its corresponding column. This makes for an
easy activity for students to do to practice identifying the different coins and which side is
heads and which is tails. On the right side of the picture, it shows a visual way to
understand how many of each coin are in $1.00. This helps students understand how
many of each coin makes $1.00 because they are able to visualize the concept.
