Lesson: Counting Money: Dollar Bills and Coins Mathematics • 2nd Grade

In this lesson, we will learn how to find the value of groups of coins and notes given by either a picture or a description and use the $ and ¢ symbols correctly.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

understand that we can write amounts of money using a dollar sign and a decimal point,
count groups of one-dollar bills and coins and write the total value,
count amounts of money and write the total value using different notations,
count groups of coins by grouping together coins that make $1.

Lesson Playlist

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Lesson Worksheet

Q1:

Natalie has ,,2 dimes, and . How much money does she have? Use the dollar sign, $, to write the answer.

Q2:

Isabella has 1 dollar and 6 pennies.

How many cents does she have?

Which of these is the correct way to write the amount of money that she has?

Q3:

Jacob has 2 dollars and 5 cents.

He writes that he has $2.5, but he has made a mistake.

How many cents does he have?

If Jacob did have $2.50, how many cents would he have had?

Correct his mistake. Use the dollar notation to show how much money he has.