Money Measurement
Students begin to handle money in Kindergarten classrooms.
K.7 The student will recognize a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and will determine the value of a collection of pennies and/or nickels whose total value is 10 cents or less.
Understanding the Standard (For Teachers)
Involvement in varied activities such as physically manipulating coins and making comparisons about their sizes, colors, and values is prerequisite to the skills of coin recognition and valuation.
Counting money helps students gain an awareness of consumer skills and the use of money in everyday life.
A variety of classroom experiences in which students manipulate physical models of money and count forward to determine the value of a collection of coins are important activities to ensure competence with using money.
Students need experiences to develop the concept that a nickel has a value of five cents even though it is one object.
All students should
Develop common referents for identifying pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
Understand the value of a collection of coins whose value is 10 cents or less.
Teaching the Standard:
Books
Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday. By. Judith Viorst. Illus. by Ray Cruz. 1987. p.32. Athenum Books for Young Readers. (9780689711992). Gr K. Journey through the week with Alexander, who was given a dollar by his grandparents. Where does his money go? What does he spend it on?
The Coin Counting Book. By Rozanne Williams. 2001. p.32. Charlesbridge Pub Inc. (9780881063264). Gr. K. Learn coin denominations through rhymes and photographs. A fun way to start a lesson on money.
The Penny Pot. By Stuart J. Murphy. Illus. by Lynne Woodcock Craveth. 1998. p 40. Harper Collins (9780064467179). Gr K. Set at the school fair, Jessie would like to have her face painted, but she only has 31cents left! See how she find the money to participate in the face painting.
Activites/Centerwork/Small Group
Coin Flip Book. Make this foldable with your class to help them learn facts about coins and their value.
Money Lesson Plan. From the DOE of Virginia, this lesson plan helps students learn to identify and add together the values of different coins.
Penny Race. From the US Mint, here's a game to play to help students learn value of single coins and value equivalence. Students draw cards with pictures of coins, determine the value, and that's how many spaces they can move.
Electronic Activites
Counting Money. This game has students count the values of money. Easy online game to reinforce classroom instruction.
Kindergarten Money Game. Online activity that has children purchase items using the correct amount of money. Use single coins and bills or multiple coins and bills to reach the correct amount.
Peter Pig's Money Counter. This game has students sort coins, count coins, and choose which collection of money is greater. Students will practice all kinds of math knowledge in this game!
Assessments
Coin Value Match-up. Have students match up pictures of coins to their value. Uses photograph representations of real coins.
Color by Code. Using different coins to tell students which sections to color which color, you can determine your students ability to name coins!
Kindergarten Coins. This worksheet helps teachers check their students progress with coin values and addition. This sheet uses pennies and nickels.