Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Alexander, Who used to be Rich last Sunday

Judith Viorst

Description:

·  This is a math lesson in which the students will be able to identify and name the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

Academic Objectives:

·  MKN1 The student will connect numerals to the quantities they represent

h. identify coins by name and value (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter).

·  M1N1: Students will estimate, model, compare, order, and represent whole numbers up to 100.

f. Identify bills ($1, $5, $10, $20) by name and value and exchange equivalent quantities by making fair trades involving combinations of bills and count out a combination of bills needed to purchase items less than $20.

Brilliant Star Objective:

·  Finances: Students will be able to identify coins and its values.

Essential Question

·  What is the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter?

Activating Strategy

·  Read Alexander, Who used to be Rich last Sunday.

Present

1. Show the students a penny and tell them its name and value. Tell the students that counting pennies is like counting by ones.

2. Show the students a nickel and tell them its name and value. Tell the students that five pennies is the same as one nickel. Tell the students that counting nickels is like counting by fives.

3. Show the students a dime and tell them its value. Tell the students that ten pennies equals a dime and two nickels equal a dime. Tell the students that counting dimes is like counting by tens.

4. Show the students a quarter and tell them its value. Tell the students that twenty five pennies equal a quarter and five nickels equal a quarter. Tell the students that there are also other ways to show twenty five cents.

Guided Practice

1. Hang up a piece of chart paper that is divided in half. On one side have the amounts fifteen cents, fifteen cents, twelve cents, ten cents, eight cents, eleven cents, four cents, five cents, and twenty cents written.

2. Give each student or pair of students a card with one of the money amounts drawn on it. You can represent the same money amount different ways to make enough cards for the class.

3. Tell the students to paste their cards next to the correct money amount.

4. Go over the chart with the students.

5. Before ending the lesson, show the class each coin (penny, nickel, dime, and penny) and ask them the value.

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