Money“Making Change” With Technology

Second Grade MathematicsAmanda Cianciola

Common Core State Standards: Mathematics

• CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.C.8 Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?

Rationale• It is imperative for diverse means of technology to be

incorporated into lessons regarding all topics to provide students with a greater assortment of learning opportunities. Applying technology to money, in particular, helps expand students’ understanding of the topic by engaging them in more interactive experiences. Exploring this topic with technology allows students to strengthen money identification skills with realistic images, practice real world application using digital manipulatives, and enhance overall knowledge by encouraging expansive research. Furthermore, technology can often clearly communicate pertinent concepts, test students’ problem-solving abilities, and genuinely assess students’ learning. Students learn according to varied styles and have access to different materials beyond the classroom; therefore, it is imperative to include technology in lessons so students’ needs as learners are effectively met and students’ comprehension of what they are taught is consistently well-rounded.

Content Explanation

• With the application of technology to lessons regarding money, students are able to have access to an extensive range of educational resources. This includes websites, references, videos, podcasts, blogs, apps, games, puzzles, worksheets, and translators. More specific examples are shared on following slides, but there are even more still waiting to be be discovered.• Following slides have pictures which can be clicked on in order to

access the original websites associated with the certain resources being showcased. These links are also cited in the slides’ notes with additional explanations of their valuable uses.• All resources presented have been previously noted as reliable

means through which to further educate students about money.

Blog

• Julie has served as a substitute, teacher, and administrator in several school systems.• Her blog, Math is Elementary,

primarily offers lesson ideas for topics commonly covered in mathematics, often with associated literature and practice activities.• Students, parents, and teachers can

reference her blog for effective ways to strengthen students’ knowledge not only of money, but other important concepts in mathematics, as well.

Pinterest• Pinterest provides a plethora of unique

materials that aim to enrich the understanding of money.

• Students can use Pinterest to assist them with homework, reinforcement, and projects.

• Parents can use Pinterest to develop methods that help guide students’ growth with further application of topics beyond the classroom.

• Teachers can use Pinterest to find new ways to go about effectively engaging students in their educational experiences associated to certain topics with lesson plans, bulletin boards, and practical assignments.

Podcast• This set of Sesame Street podcasts

focus on educating students on how to spend, save, and share money.

• Students can independently listen to these podcasts to acquire greater comprehension regarding the significance of money and how it should be appropriately used.

• Parents can reinforce the realistic application of what students learn about money by encouraging them to tune in to these podcasts.

• Teachers can play these podcasts in classrooms to communicate some of the pertinent purposes behind their lessons to students.

Instructional Video

• This interactive instructional video was specially created as a tool to help educate students on how to successfully count money using actual coins and bills in real world situations.• Students, parents, and teachers

can view this interactive instructional video to aid in the reinforcement of students’ identification skills, strengthening of students’ conversion abilities, and application of students’ acquired knowledge.

Song

• This song reviews basic coin identification, an essential skill necessary to the correct use of money which students must master before they can build off of it with more advanced application.• Students, parents, and

teachers can use this memorable song to make learning even the most basic concepts of money genuinely entertaining for students.

Internet Resource: Bureau Of Engraving & Printing

• The Bureau Of Engraving & Printing holds the principle responsibility of producing currency for the United States of America.• The associated website offers fascinating

information about the origination, production, and importance of the currency used across the United States of America. • Allowing students to explore this could

help them make more meaningful connections between what they learn in the classroom and the reality behind it all.

Internet Resource: Money As You Learn

• Money As You Learn is a development of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability that aims to incorporate financial education into lessons also meeting the Common Core State Standards.• The associated website offers diverse

tools specifically for educators to build effective lessons about money from.• Integrating this topic into several

subjects will help students become more interested in it and encourage them to explore it from multiple perspectives.

Internet Resource: TD Bank Wow Zone

• TD Bank is one of the most popular banks in the United States of America, and it strives to keep society familiar with the most important concepts related to money.• The associated websites of TD Bank Wow Zone For Kids, For Parents, and For Educators

offer all three audiences unique methods to engage students in understanding money.• Students are more likely to succeed with this topic after the implementation of such

suggested games, discussions, and activities enhancing their true comprehension.

Kidspiration

• This diagram was created using Kidspiration to visually map out the key foundations to counting money.• It could be distributed to students

with blank text boxes they could be directed to fill in as a reference, review, or assessment.• Students could also complete it online

as an assignment listed under their class’s account by erasing the words in the text boxes and filling them in with actual answers.• These activities may be done

independently or collaboratively.

Teaching Material: App

• The app K-12 Money helps students practice counting money on a variety of levels. • Through the app, students are

provided an assortment of opportunities to apply money counting skills with digital manipulatives.• It is also aligned with numerous

Common Core State Standards.• The use of this app by students

reinforces and further develops their proficiency with the topic of money.

Teaching Material: SMART Board Activity

• This Money SMART Board activity can be used to teach, practice, strengthen, review, and test money counting skills with students. • Money counting skills are realistically applied in numerous settings

throughout the program.• Students are likely to show great interest in such an interactive

opportunity and, as a result, demonstrate better learning, overall.

Teaching Material: Puzzle

• This crossword was developed using Discovery Education’s Puzzlemaker program for criss-cross puzzles.• This puzzle can serve as a

reinforcement tool or testing tool regarding the basic concepts of counting just coins, in particular.• Academic puzzles, such as this, do not

always seem like such tedious work, especially in comparison to some other assignments, so students are also more likely to enjoy completing them.

Teaching Material: Worksheet

• This worksheet was found on TeAch-Nology, which provides a tremendous assortment of diverse materials for educators to apply in classrooms.• This worksheet provides clear images

of different coin collections students have to use their money counting skills to total.• Students could complete the

worksheet independently or collaboratively.

Subject-Based Resource

• A Plus Math is a website that provides an assortment of tools for students in attempt to better education through mathematics. • The website contains worksheets,

flashcards, games, and guidance for students studying all different topics in mathematics.• There are several opportunities for students

to specifically practice money counting skills.• Students are also able to review other

important skills associated with this topic, such as addition and subtraction.

Use Of The Internet: Online Reference Materials

• The Middletown Thrall Library has an extensive list of online reference materials that focus just on money according to all different levels and perspectives.• All online reference materials

presented are described in detail and have links to their original websites. • A compilation of suggested

searches reflecting key words related to money is also available.

Use Of The Internet: Interactive Website

• ABC Ya is dedicated to providing a collection of entertaining, but educational games, several of which focus on money.• The first example here, Learning Coins, offers

a thorough review of money counting skills before presenting an assortment of beneficial application exercises for students. • The second example here, Money Bingo,

allows students to use their money counting skills at a range of levels distinguishable by differing combinations of coins and bills, as well as board styles.

Use of the Internet: Translator

• Although this translator is not directly associated with the topic of money, it can certainly play an advantageous role in ensuring all students’ needs as individual learners are met in the classroom.• This free tool can translate words, websites, or documents between

over 40 of the most popular languages.

Web 2.0: Active Allowance• Active Allowance tracks checklists of weekly

tasks for which “payment” is to be awarded upon their completion. • Rather than receiving actual money for

household chores, however, teachers can shape checklists to reflect classroom responsibilities students can earn fake money for upon their completion. • These checklists can even be personalized for

each student according to specific goals set for them.• As a result, students will be working hard and

keeping track of their own fake money which can be used to purchase small rewards in the classroom store when open.

Web 2.0: Zefty• Zefty tracks money in virtual bank

accounts.• Teachers can use this application to

have students track money in virtual bank accounts according to regularly distributed spending, saving, and sharing scenarios that are always different for every student.• Students would be able to become

better acquainted with the actual concepts of spending, saving, and sharing money on a more realistic basis.• Students who demonstrate the best

money management could win prizes.

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