Lesson Plan: Making One US Dollar
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to write one dollar as $1.00 and find combinations of coins equal to one dollar.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recognize that 100 cents is equal to one dollar,
- make one dollar using nickels,
- make one dollar using dimes,
- make one dollar using quarters,
- recognize a group of coins that make one dollar.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- recognizing coins,
- ordering coins from the highest value to lowest value and skip counting to find the total.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- making amounts other than 1 dollar,
- the dollar bill.
