1. MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES
BY: ALEXEYA HAYWOOD

2. LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL
For: 2nd graders
Subject: Mathematics

3. COUNTING MONEY ACTIVITY

4. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Students will be able to identify coin and money
values.
 Students will be able to add and write out money
amounts.

5. COUNTING ACTIVITY 1:
INTRODUCTION TO MONEY
 We will discuss the value of dollars and coins
 Each student will be given a copy of the poem
“Smart” by Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk
Ends
 As a class we will read the poem aloud.
 Each student is to write out the amount the son
received next to each stanza.
 Question to answer: Is the boy smart after all?

6. “SMART” BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN
My dad gave me one dollar bill And four is more than three!
„Cause I‟m his smartest son, And I took the nickels to Hiram
Coombs
And I swapped it for two shiny
quarters Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool gave me five pennies for
„Cause two is more than one! them,
And then I took the quarters And five is more than four!
And traded them to Lou And then I went and showed my dad,
For three dimes-I guess he don‟t And he got red in the cheeks
know
And closed his eyes and shook his
That three is more than two! head ---
Just then, along came old blind Bates Too proud of me to speak!
And just „cause he can‟t see
He gave me four nickels for my three From Where the Sidewalk Ends
(1974)
dimes,

7. COUNTING ACTIVITY 2:
CATALOG SHOPPING
Supplies Needed:
 Fake money
 Index cards
with written
amounts of
money.
 Order form
 Toy catalogs.

8. COUNTING MONEY ACTIVITY 2:
CATALOG SHOPPING
 Students will be in groups of four.
 Two toy catalogs per group will be passed out and each
student will be given an order form.
 Students will be given the opportunity to select an index card
with a random amount of money listed on it.
 After the drawing, each student will be given the amount of
money written on their cards. This is the amount that they
will have to spend for their orders.
 Students will go through the catalog and select items they
wish to “purchase” and fill out the order form accordingly.
Before going to “check-out” the students will add the amounts
of each purchase and will have their money counted and ready
for check-out.
 Students will take the completed form to the teacher (cashier )
who will make sure the total amount is added correctly and
have the students count out the money aloud.