Changes in change
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A lesson plan for Grades 2–4 Mathematics
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- Appropriate grades
- 2–4
- Subjects
- mathematics (arithmetic)
- Provider
- National Council on Economic Education
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This lesson begins with students visiting a website that gives them practice in counting money. The second site goes one step further in that students are given opportunities to make change for make-believe purchases.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 2
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with whole numbers through 999.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 999.
- Connect model, number word, and number using a variety of representations.
- Read and write numbers.
- Compare and order.
- Rename.
- Estimate.
- Use a variety of models to build understanding of place value (ones, tens, hundreds).
- Objective 1.03: Create, model, and solve problems that involve addition, subtraction, equal grouping, and division into halves, thirds, and fourths (record in fraction form).
- Objective 1.04: Develop fluency with multi-digit addition and subtraction through 999 using multiple strategies.
- Strategies for adding and subtracting numbers.
- Estimation of sums and differences in appropriate situations.
- Relationships between operations.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 999.
Grade 3
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will model, identify, and compute with whole numbers through 9,999.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 9,999.
- Connect model, number word, and number using a variety of representations.
- Build understanding of place value (ones through thousands).
- Compare and order.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency with multi-digit addition and subtraction through 9,999 using:
- Strategies for adding and subtracting numbers.
- Estimation of sums and differences in appropriate situations.
- Relationships between operations.
- Objective 1.06: Develop flexibility in solving problems by selecting strategies and using mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 9,999.
Grade 4
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for rational numbers 0.01 through 99,999.
- Connect model, number word, and number using a variety of representations.
- Build understanding of place value (hundredths through ten thousands).
- Compare and order rational numbers.
- Make estimates of rational numbers in appropriate situations.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for rational numbers 0.01 through 99,999.
