Grade 1 - Money Unit
The Money Unit involves using skip counting to determine the value of a collection of coins in order to answer questions such as:
- How many pennies does it take to equal a nickel?
- How could you use skip counting to figure out the value of a collection of nickels?
- How many pennies does it take to equal a dime?
- How could you use skip counting to figure out the value of a collection of dimes?
- If you have a collection of dimes and nickels, how could you use skip counting to find its value? When you run out of dimes to count by tens, how should you count the remaining nickels?
- How many different ways can you make change for 15¢? How will you know you have found all of the ways?
Math Concepts and Skills:
The student identifies coins, their values, and the relationships among them in order to solve problems.
The student:
- identifies U.S. coins, (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters) by value and describes the relationships among them.
- writes a number with the ¢ symbol to represent the value of a coin.
- uses the relationships among coins to skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s to figure out the value of a collection of pennies, nickels/dimes.
Summative Assessment Task
Students determine two different coin combinations that equal 25 cents, to purchase juice from a machine.
Instructional Tasks/Formative Assessments
Students determine whether or not two children have the same amount of money in their hands.
Students determine different ways to show coins that equal 25 cents.
Students determine three possible sets of coins that each add up to 17 cents.
Students determine how many coins Alex and Mia each have in their hands if they each have a total of 12 cents.