Lesson 7

Title: Adding Nickels and Pennies

Lesson Overview: As a precursor to adding a mixed collection of coins, students need to learn

how to add nickels and pennies.

Resources or Materials Needed:

Real coins (dimes, nickels, and pennies)

Variety of toys/items

Ten frame
Document Camera
Small group set of IPads with mobile application, Seesaw, loaded.

Lesson Objectives: Given a dime, nickel and 2 pennies, students will verbally identify the

combined value with 100% accuracy. Given a dime, nickel and two pennies, students will

demonstrate an understanding of the concept of counting on as a strategy to find the value of the

collection by explaining their thinking orally with 100% accuracy.

Time: 1.5 hours.

Step 1: Pre-instructional activities: print and cut out the Money Talk cards, assemble the small

toys/items and the real coins. Load the Seesaw application on the iPads. Set up the document

camera.
Step 2: Content presentation Bring students to the carpet and use the document camera to show

a dime. How many cents do we have? (10). How do you know? Show a dime and a nickel.

How many cents do we have now? (15). How do you know? Model counting on from 10 by

holding the 10 in your head and counting on with the nickel. Show a dime, nickel, and 3

pennies. How many cents do we have? (18). How do you know? Repeat with different

combinations of a dime, nickel and pennies up to 20 cents.

Step 3: Learner Participation: Today, students are going to use their knowledge of coins and

values to buy a toy. Have the toys (erasers, stickers, pencils, etc.) laid out for students to choose

with price tags attached. There will be real coins at each students table. Call each student up to

choose an item. Students will return to their seats, find the coins needed to buy that item. They

will then take a picture of the coins, and use the recording function to add a recording of their

voice. Students will record themselves identifying the value of the coins and explaining their

thinking.

Step 4: Assessment: For this lesson, the instructor will take anecdotal notes from the students

Seesaw entries showing them counting the coins and explaining their thinking.

Step 5: Follow-through activities: Students will need adequate time to practice adding up the

value of a collection of coins.

After the entire unit has been taught, the instructor will give the Collection Value and Thinking

assessment to judge whether the students can add the combined value of the collection and

explain their thinking.

 Collection Value and Thinking Assessment

Students will identify the value of the collection and explain their thinking.
Coins

Student Name________________________ Student Name________________________

Correctly identifies value of collection Correctly identifies value of collection

Explains their thinking. Explains their thinking.

Notes: Notes:

Student Name________________________ Student Name________________________

Correctly identifies value of collection Correctly identifies value of collection

Explains their thinking. Explains their thinking.

Notes: Notes:

Student Name________________________ Student Name________________________

Correctly identifies value of collection Correctly identifies value of collection

Explains their thinking. Explains their thinking.

Notes: Notes:

Student Name________________________ Student Name________________________

Correctly identifies value of collection Correctly identifies value of collection

Explains their thinking. Explains their thinking.

Notes: Notes: