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🧮 2nd Grade · Math2.MD.C.8Unit 7: Money

Coins and their values

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🎯 Objective: Students identify coins and their values.

Lesson outline

  1. Examine real or play coins.
  2. Make a coin chart.
  3. Sort coins by value.
  4. Exit: name the value of each coin.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

2.MD.C.8

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Count dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies
  • Solve money word problems using $ and ¢

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Money & time to 5 minutes📚 All 2nd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Money”

  1. Coins and their values
  2. Counting coins
  3. Dollars and cents
  4. Money word problems

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