Good at Math® First Grade Unit 10: Money Pt. 2

Good at Math® First Grade is a 12 unit 1st Grade math curriculum for classroom and homeschool learning environments. Each unit comes with detailed daily lesson plans, posters, teaching tools, anchor chart elements, games, center materials, independent practice, no prep printables, end of unit assessment, a Mini PBL unit, and bonus practice materials for additional skill exposure. The detailed lesson plans include a title, postable lesson goal, lesson materials list, warm up fluency practice that spirals, direct teaching, group/tandem practice that includes hands on and movement based skill practice, individual/partner/small group exploration, center activities, individual practice, and national first grade standard alignment. Good at Math® is a comprehensive curriculum designed by a veteran teacher, tested, tweaked, and perfected through countless years of use and hundreds of students taught. The lessons and materials are designed using Universal Design for Learning to best meet the needs of a diverse student population.

Unit 10: Money Part 2 builds upon students’ foundational understanding of coins, bills, and money values by extending their skills into coin equivalencies, counting mixed money, comparing amounts, and real-world financial problem solving. Students begin by reviewing the names and values of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and common dollar bills before exploring relationships between coins and learning how to exchange different combinations of money for equal values. They practice representing the same amount in multiple ways, selecting efficient coin combinations, and counting collections of mixed coins and bills. As the unit progresses, students learn to compare money amounts, determine whether they have enough money to make a purchase, calculate how much money remains after spending, and find missing amounts needed to reach a target value. Students then apply these understandings to solve increasingly complex money word problems, including multi-step challenges that encourage mathematical reasoning and strategic thinking. The unit culminates in an applied learning experience that gives students an opportunity to use money skills in a meaningful, real-world context. This unit contains 13 instructional lessons, multiple hands-on center activities, money games, collaborative learning tasks, no-prep independent practice, bonus practice activities, a mini PBL unit, and an end-of-unit assessment to inform instruction, intervention, and next steps.

Prerequisite Note: This unit is a continuation of Good at Math® Kindergarten Unit 13: Intro to Money and builds directly upon the foundational concepts and skills introduced in that unit. Good at Math® Kindergarten Unit 13 is a prerequisite for this unit and should be completed before beginning First Grade Unit 10.

In Good at Math® First Grade, each unit ends with a mini Project Based Learning unit that spans multiple days and requires students to use all skills gained within the unit to solve a real world problem and/or contribute to their community in a meaningful way. All planning, execution, and reflection pages are included as well as a full, detailed unit plan. 

With Good at Math® you can take the guesswork out of your math block and know that you are providing a developmentally appropriate and sequenced math program for your learners.

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Good at Math® First Grade is a growing curriculum with 1-2 units published each month and an estimated final publishing date of December 2026. 

Good at Math® First Grade units include: 

Unit 1: Numbers to 120
Unit 2: Comparing, Ordering, and Relationships Between Numbers
Unit 3: Addition & Subtraction Strategies within 20
Unit 4: Equality, Equations, and Algebraic Thinking
Unit 5: Addition & Subtraction in Word Problems within 100
Unit 6: Addition & Subtraction with Regrouping
Unit 7: Measurement & Length
Unit 8: Telling Time Pt2 (Continuation from GAM Kindergarten Unit 14)
Unit 9: Data, Graphs, & Analyzation
Unit 10: Money Pt2 (Continuation from GAM Kindergarten Unit 13)
Unit 11: Geometry & Spatial Reasoning
Unit 12: Fractions & Equal Shares