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through out the story.

put tally marks for each coin/dollar bills,

use computation to get the total amount of money found in the story.

Understand the concept of combining coins to make $1.00 increments

Math and Literature Connection

Money: adding various coins to get total amount in bank.

Pigs Will be Pigs

by Amy Axelrod

Pictures by Sharon McGginley-Nally

Scholastics 1994

Learn the Content:

Materials Needed: Pig Will Be Pigs worksheet, play money, discuss grouping tally marks

by 5’s

Math Objective: Students will be able to actively listen to story and put tally marks

on worksheet for the coins found during the story.

Math Objective: Students will be able to skip count and add all the coins to come up

with the total dollar amount found in the story.

Students will:

Pre-Teach: Listen to and discuss “Pigs will be Pigs” during morning calendar

time. Connect some of the concepts in the story to the things we practice during

calendar time or Math time.

Practice skip counting coins Ex: $.05 x4=$.20

$.10 x5=$.50

Practice tally marks and grouping by sets of 5

Work in small groups and discuss ways to best count all the money found.

Reinforce the Content Learning:

Students will:

- Actively listen to the story and make tally marks in appropriate coin values box

on student worksheet

- Work in small groups to see if they have the same number of tally marks for

each coin value.

- Students will then total values for each coin found

- Activity page should be displayed on the promethean. Students will then

complete activity independently and receive assistance as needed.

Consolidate the Learning:

Students will:

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