Lesson Two

Objective: After a lecture and discussion on making equal amounts of money, students know how to pay for something with different combinations of coins, with 80% accuracy. 

Vocabulary: bill, coin, equivalent set, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar (penny = $0.01 or one cent; nickel = $0.05 or five cents; dime = $0.10 or ten cents; quarter = $0.25 or twenty-five cents; half dollar = $0.50 or fifty cents) 

Materials:

        * Manipulatives (play money)

        * Worksheet

        * Internet

Activities:

1.  Review vocabulary and the value of each coin.

2.  The teacher says to the students, "Today we are going to continue learning about money. How many of you remember how to count bills and coins?"  After the students respond, the teacher states, "Today we are going to use what we know about counting bills and coins in order to make equal amounts of money." At this point, the teacher reviews the worth of different bills and coins.  Next, the teacher writes on the board an example of equivalent sets of coins that total $1.35 as she explains that sets that are equivalent name the same amount.

3.  The teacher then writes different amounts of money on the board and asks student volunteers to come up to the board and draw what bills and coins they would use to equal the amount written.  As the student volunteers are up on the board drawing the different bills and coins that they would use to equal the amounts written, the other students remain in their seats and are told to draw the different bills and coins that they would use.

4.  After having introduced the concept of equivalent sets of money, the teacher tells the students to think about the two symbols that they learned about yesterday which always apply when writing amounts of money.  The teacher asks the students the following questions: "What symbol is used to represent cents? What symbol is used to represent dollars?" 

5.  After student responses have been given and discussed, the teacher instructs them to complete a worksheet and she tells them that they are to work on their own.

6.  As students work, the teacher distributes play money in case students need to use it to help them count as they are working independently on the math problems.  In case students have any questions, the teacher walks around assisting them.

Web Activities:

1.  Students can online to Fleet Kids and play games on money.

2.  Students will go online to EdHelper  and create their own worksheet on counting money.

3.  Students will printout a wordsearch on money.

Enrichment Activity:  worksheet (optional)

Evaluation:  Worksheet (Students will complete the worksheet with 80% accuracy)

Home Learning:  Students create 5 equivalent sets of money and complete a worksheet.