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Features

  • The goal and its "I can" line, what to get ready and the words to use
  • A 45 minute lesson in five steps (warm up, teach with words to say, try it together, practice, exit ticket)
  • Questions to ask, and the mistakes students make and what to do about them
  • Ideas for students who need help or are ready for more
  • Each plan ends with the Animal Math worksheets, worksheet makers, tools and quiz for that lesson
  • Lessons: counting bills and coins, enough money and comparing amounts, making change, skills and income, scarcity and price, planned and unplanned spending, credit, and saving and giving
  • Every lesson is a state lesson: lessons 14.1 to 14.3 for the states that teach money in 3rd grade, lessons 14.4 to 14.8 for Texas

3rd Grade Math CurriculumUnit 14

These are the lesson plans for Unit 14 of 14 in the 3rd Grade Math Curriculum: 125 lessons in teaching order, week by week, each with a lesson plan and an exit ticket.

Also for this unit: exit tickets, pre-check, unit review and test. See the whole year

Resources for Each Lesson

Everything each lesson plan points to, with links. Sheet numbers count worksheets: a color pack prints each sheet again in black and white.

14.1 Count coins and bills; write $ and ¢

14.2 Do I have enough? Compare amounts

14.3 Make change

14.4 Skills, jobs and income

14.5 Scarcity and price

14.6 Planned and unplanned spending

14.7 Credit: borrowing and paying back

14.8 Saving and giving

Skills Covered

  • Count bills and coins and write dollars and cents
  • Decide whether there is enough money and compare amounts
  • Make change by counting on from the price
  • Skills, training and pay
  • Scarcity, plenty and price
  • Planned and unplanned spending
  • Borrowing, lending and interest
  • Saving and giving

How to Use This Pack

Eight lesson plans, one for each lesson of a 3rd grade unit on money and financial literacy, in teaching order, after an overview page that lays the unit out day by day: a pre-check, the eight lessons, a review and the unit test. Each plan fits on one page. It gives the goal, what to get ready, the words to use, the lesson in five steps with the words to say, questions to ask, common mistakes and what to do about them, and the Animal Math worksheets, makers, tools and quiz for the lesson.

In the Classroom

Print the unit, or just the day's page, and teach from it. Each lesson takes about 45 minutes: a 5 minute warm up, 10 minutes of teaching, 10 minutes together, 15 minutes of practice and an exit ticket at the end. The exit tickets and the unit test are separate packs, made for these lessons. Every lesson in this unit comes from state standards: lessons 14.1 to 14.3 (counting money, enough money and comparing, making change) are taught in 3rd grade in Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia (making change in Virginia), and lessons 14.4 to 14.8 are the Texas financial literacy lessons; teach the ones your class learns.

At Home

Teaching at home? Use the warm up and the "Try it together" step as a short lesson, and the "Words to use" as the way to talk about it. Real coins and bills work best: count the money in a wallet, pay for something small and count on to check the change, and talk about how much of a week's money to save, spend and give.

Tips for Success

  • Read the "Watch for" box before the lesson: it is what to listen for while students work
  • Keep play bills and coins on the tables for the whole unit
  • Count the bills first, then count on with the coins
  • Count on from the price to make change, smallest coin first
  • Sort the exit tickets into got it, almost and not yet to plan the next day

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 2.MD.C.8 Solve story problems with pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills, writing amounts with the $ and ¢ signs.

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3rd Grade Money and Financial Literacy Lesson Plans

Lesson plans for every lesson of a unit on money and financial literacy, from counting bills and coins and making change to pay, prices, spending, credit and saving. Each one-page plan gives a lesson in five steps, common mistakes and the worksheets to use, after a unit overview.

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What’s Included

  • 8 one-page lesson plans, one for each lesson of the unit
  • A unit overview: the unit day by day, what to get ready, how each lesson goes
  • Words to say, questions to ask and common mistakes for every lesson
  • The worksheets, makers, tools and quiz for each lesson (9 pages in all)
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