1. Marvelous Second Grade Mathematicians
April Carson
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2. Table of Contents “Smart” – A Poem by Shel Silverstein
Purpose for learning – Georgia Performance Standard
Lesson Introduction
4 Word Problems
Charts and Graphs
Bar Graph
Pie Chart
Table
Video Clip
The Coin Poem
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3. Smart By: Shel Silverstein My dad gave me one dollar bill
‘Cause I’m his smartest son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
‘Cause two is more than one!
And then I took the quarters
And traded them to Lou
For three dimes—I guess he don’t know
That three is more than two!
Just then, along came old blind Bates
And just ‘cause he can’t see
He gave me four nickels for my three dimes,
And four is more than three!
And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool gave me five pennies for them,
And five is more than four!
And then I went and showed my dad,
And he got red in the cheeks
And closed his eyes and shook his head---
Too proud of me to speak!
From Where the Sidewalk Ends HarperCollins Publishers: 1974

4. What is the purpose of today’s lesson?
Concepts/Skill to Maintain: fair trades with coins or bills
Georgia Performance Standard Second Grade M2N1c. Use money as a medium of exchange. Count back change and use decimal notation and the dollar and cent symbols to represent a collection of coins and currency.

5. Let’s Begin! You are now going to receive some coins.
We will work each problem together. With
your coins, show the amount of money that
the character from the poem receives when
he trades his money. We will add up the
amount after each trade.

6. Word Problem #1 My dad gave me one dollar bill
‘Cause I’m his smartest son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
‘Cause two is more than one!
Ok the first part of the poem shows that our character started with one dollar and he traded it for two shiny quarters. How much are two quarters worth?

7. Word Problem #2 And then I took the quarters And traded them to Lou
For three dimes—I guess he don’t know
That three is more than two!
How much are three dimes worth?

8. Word Problem #3 Just then, along came old blind Bates
And just ‘cause he can’t see
He gave me four nickels for my three dimes,
And four is more than three!
How much are four nickels worth?

9. Word Problem #4 And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool gave me five pennies for them,
And five is more than four!
How much are five pennies worth?

10. Bar Graph

11. Pie Chart

12. Table 1 2 3 4 5 $1.00 $0.50 $0.30 $0.20 $0.05 Dollar Quarters Dimes
I started with…
I traded that for…
Then I got…
After that, I received…
Now, all I have left is… 1
Dollar 2
Quarters 3
Dimes 4
Nickels 5
Pennies
…which equals…
$1.00
$0.50
$0.30
$0.20
$0.05

13. To view the money video clip,
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14. Penny, penny Easily spent Copper brown and worth one cent.
Math is fun!
Coin Poem
Penny, penny Easily spent Copper brown and worth one cent.
Nickel, nickel, Thick and fat, You're worth five cents. I know that. Dime, dime, Little and thin, I remember, You're worth ten. Quarter, quarter Big and bold, You're worth twenty-five I am told!
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