Standard 2: Tell time and identify the value of coins and combinations of coins and dollar bills.

General Information
Number: MA.1.M.2
Title: Tell time and identify the value of coins and combinations of coins and dollar bills.
Type: Standard
Subject: Mathematics (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 1
Strand: Measurement

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks.

Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

MA.1.M.2.AP.1
Using analog and digital clocks, express the time in hours.
MA.1.M.2.AP.2
Identify the names and values of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
MA.1.M.2.AP.3a
Find the value of a group of only pennies, only nickels or only dimes up to $1.
MA.1.M.2.AP.3b
Find the value of a group of only one-, only five- or only ten-dollar bills up to $100.

Related Resources

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Formative Assessments

Relating Coins:

Students are asked to relate the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to other coins and to the dollar.

Type: Formative Assessment

Identifying the Values of Coins:

Students are asked to identify various coins by name and to describe the value of each coin in cents.

Type: Formative Assessment

Identifying the Value of Paper Currency:

Students are shown various paper currency and are asked to name each bill and identify its value.

Type: Formative Assessment

How Much Money?:

Students are asked to determine the values of combinations of pennies and dimes.

Type: Formative Assessment

Relating Coins to a Dollar - 2:

Students are asked to relate the value of a quarter to one dollar.

Type: Formative Assessment

Relating Coins to a Dollar - 1:

Students are asked to relate the values of a penny and a dime to one dollar.

Type: Formative Assessment

Determining Values of Coins:

Students are shown various coins and are asked to identify the name and value of each.

Type: Formative Assessment

Digital Clocks:

Students tell and write the time on a digital clock.

Type: Formative Assessment

What Time is Lunch?:

Students are asked to draw the hands on an analog clock and write time on a digital clock that corresponds to a given time.

Type: Formative Assessment

A Good Night’s Sleep:

Students are asked to write times shown on an analog clock.

Type: Formative Assessment

Match The Times:

Students match analog and digital clocks that show the same time.

Type: Formative Assessment

After School:

Students read and write times shown on three different analog clocks.

Type: Formative Assessment

Lesson Plans

Guess Who: True American Edition:

In this integrated lesson plan, students will identify US coins, express their values using the cents (¢) symbol and state their equivalency to the US dollar while recognizing symbols and individuals that represent the United States.

Type: Lesson Plan

A Pot of Pennies:

This lesson focuses on the importance of knowing the value of various coins and being able to add them together to determine the total value. It uses two great picture books to introduce counting and adding coins and understanding their value. It is collaborative and interactive using coin manipulatives, journals, and instant feedback.

Type: Lesson Plan

It's About Time:

This is an engaging activity which will provide students with the opportunity to practice telling time by the hour and half-hour us.ing their bodies as the hands of a clock.

Type: Lesson Plan

Counting Coins:

Through this lesson, students will be able to recognize and count pennies and dimes to find the values of combinations of these coins . Students will also create a model using coin manipulatives to represent given values.

Type: Lesson Plan

How Many Ways Can You Make Combinations of Pennies and Dimes?:

In this lesson, the students will be using real world situational problems and manipulatives such as ten frames, unit cubes, to add different value combinations of pennies and dimes. This lesson starts with whole group, moves to guided practice, then progresses to independent practice. The lesson ends with a summative assessment.

Type: Lesson Plan

Mystery Coins:

In this lesson students will be identifying the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and expressing the value of each of these coins. This lesson starts out as a whole group lesson focusing on an anchor chart that has been created by the teacher with the students as they discover knowledge about the coins. This lesson includes a game, partner activity, and an independent matching activity.

Type: Lesson Plan

Creative Coin Collections:

This lesson is designed to give students additional practice finding the values of combinations of coins using pennies, nickels, and dimes. The lesson can be adjusted to challenge students by requiring them to make as many combinations of a given value as they can, to make the values using as many different coins as they can, or to make the values given using the least number of coins.

Type: Lesson Plan

Get Up and Move!:

In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will work together to problem solve. The students are presented with a problem in which they have to decide on a procedure for choosing the activity that should be done at a Move-a-Thon fundraiser. Students will organize data in a tally chart as well as a pictograph. In the “twist” students will be given combinations of bills representing the value of each of the activities. Students will work together to reevaluate their original procedure and determine if it should change, along with the rankings.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

What time is it?:

Students will learn to tell and write time to the hour and half hour using analog clocks.

Type: Lesson Plan

Money Mania:

This lesson reviews the names and values of coins as well as how to determine the value of combinations of coins.

Type: Lesson Plan

Zaspper Baby Fun Toy Company:

In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will work together to determine a procedure for ranking toys for a company. They will use data presented in a tally chart, count money, and consider information in tables.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

Coin Combinations: How else can you pay for that?:

In this lesson, students will learn that there can be multiple ways (multiple coin combinations) to reach a given money amount. Using money manipulatives, students will work cooperatively and independently to practice finding different coin combinations for a given money amount. Students will also become comfortable knowing that there are multiple ways to reach a correct answer.

Type: Lesson Plan

What Time Is It?:

The students will tell time to the hour and half hour using the story The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle.

Type: Lesson Plan

Original Student Tutorials

Let's Make A Dollar:

Learn how many quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies are needed to make a dollar with this interactive tutorial. 

This is part 5 of 5. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Let’s Add Money: Using Similar Coins (Part 2):

Learn how to add the same type of coins together using skip counting and a number line in this interactive student tutorial. 

This is part 2 of 5. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Let's Talk About Money (Part 1):

Help Kolby learn to identify coins by their characteristics and values in this interactive tutorial. 

This is part 1 of 5. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Hickory Dickory Dock:

Learn to tell time to the hour on an analog clock and a digital clock as you complete this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Off to the Bank: Dollar Bills:

Learn the value and characteristics of dollar bills when you meet with a bank teller in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 6 of 6. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

(Part 1) Let's Talk About Money
(Part 2) Let's Add Money: Using Similar Coins
(Part 3) Let's Add Money: Mixed Coins
(Part 4) Let's Add Money: Place Value
(Part 5) Let's Make a Dollar

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Perspectives Video: Teaching Idea

One Handed Clocks:

Unlock an effective teaching strategy for using one-handed clocks to help students learn to tell time in this Teacher Perspectives video for educators.

Type: Perspectives Video: Teaching Idea

Problem-Solving Task

Making a clock:

The purpose of this task is to introduce students to the concept of reading an analog clock.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

Student Resources

Vetted resources students can use to learn the concepts and skills in this topic.

Original Student Tutorials

Let's Make A Dollar:

Learn how many quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies are needed to make a dollar with this interactive tutorial. 

This is part 5 of 5. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Let’s Add Money: Using Similar Coins (Part 2):

Learn how to add the same type of coins together using skip counting and a number line in this interactive student tutorial. 

This is part 2 of 5. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Let's Talk About Money (Part 1):

Help Kolby learn to identify coins by their characteristics and values in this interactive tutorial. 

This is part 1 of 5. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Hickory Dickory Dock:

Learn to tell time to the hour on an analog clock and a digital clock as you complete this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Off to the Bank: Dollar Bills:

Learn the value and characteristics of dollar bills when you meet with a bank teller in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 6 of 6. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

(Part 1) Let's Talk About Money
(Part 2) Let's Add Money: Using Similar Coins
(Part 3) Let's Add Money: Mixed Coins
(Part 4) Let's Add Money: Place Value
(Part 5) Let's Make a Dollar

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Parent Resources

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Problem-Solving Task

Making a clock:

The purpose of this task is to introduce students to the concept of reading an analog clock.

Type: Problem-Solving Task