This document provides an overview of an upcoming math lesson on counting and money. The lesson will teach students about the monetary value of coins like pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. It will also cover counting money and different ways to make amounts like 25 cents. The teacher's role is to ensure students understand prerequisites before starting and to monitor understanding. Parents should practice these skills at home with their children. Students are expected to participate in class activities and ask questions when needed.

1. Show Me The Money!
Our Next Math Lesson on Counting
and Money

2. Essential Questions
• How do we apply knowledge we already have
to new ideas and concepts?

3. Unit Question
• How is counting money different than
counting numbers normally?
• Why and when do we use money?

4. Content Question
• How much are a penny, nickel, dime, and
quarter worth individually?
• What do each of these coins look like?
• How many different ways can you make 25
cents using pennies, nickels, dimes, and
quarters?

5. Summary and Standards
• In this lesson we will learn more about
counting forwards and backwards to 100 by
ones, twos, fives, and tens
• We will also count forwards and backwards
starting with numbers other than 1
• And last we will learn about multiple
representations for a given number
• AND we will apply all of this to how to use and
count money

6. My Role as Teacher
• Will be to determine if the child has the basic
understanding of all prerequisite information
before starting the new lesson
• Also to monitor the ideas and understandings
forming to insure that no false information is
being obtained

7. Your Role as Parent
• To practice with your children
• To show them how often these skills are used

8. Their Role as Students
• To participate in classroom activities
• Ask questions when having problems

9. Benefits
• Students will become more comfortable
working with numbers in preparation for more
extensive addition and subtraction
• Have a better understanding of how numbers
relate to one another
• Learn the life lesson of how to use and count
money correctly

10. Objectives
• Identify position using first, second, third, and so
on through tenth
• Using vocabulary such as equal, all, and none
• Understanding that quantity doesn’t change just
because spatial relation has
• Identify digits in the ones and tens place
• Determining a number that is 10 more or 10 less
than a given number
• Determining monetary value up to $1.00

11. Project Based Learning
• PBL is a form of instruction during which
students get the opportunity to display what
they have learned by completing a hands-on
project demonstrating the abilities they have
gained. Often these projects put the student
in a real-life situation in which they must
complete the task at hand much like they
would have to do in the adult world.

12. PBL in Our Classroom
• To keep the children engaged I like to use as
many hands-on activities as possible, but at
the first grade level, a lot of basic knowledge is
still being fostered
• This means that while I leave the thinking up
to the students, I stay very involved in the
activities to ensure they are being guided in
the correct direction, but still on their own
terms

13. Questions?
• If you need anything or have any questions,
concerns, or comments please feel free to
contact me by e-mail at
mhwells@crimson.ua.edu