Melissa Swan

Topic: Adding Money

Grade: 3rd and 4th

Objectives: The students will be able to add up the amount of money shown on the board and be able to tell if
they have enough money from the word problem.
Standards:
New York
Common Core Curriculum
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.2
Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects,
and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing
measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as
number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.

ANTICIPATORY
SET:
Teaching model
used:
Asking questions
PROCEDURES:
Teaching model
used:
Explicit instruction
and independent
practice

Responsibility Teacher 1

Responsibility Teacher 2

Responsibility
teacher 3 (if needed)
or teacher aide

The teacher will ask the

students if they know how to
add money and find the
change.

The teacher will check

students answers as they
answer the question.

The teacher aide will

help keep the students
on task.

1. The teacher will ask

1. The teacher will check
students questions from Istudents white boards
xl.
for correct answers.
2. The teacher will show the 2. The teacher will show
students how to add
or guide students to
money and find the
the right answer if they
change for questions from
need help.
I-xl.
3. The teacher will help
3. The teacher will make
students who are
sure there is new
having a hard time
questions for the students
understanding the
to answer after they all
material
finished with the last
question.

The teacher aide will

help keep the students
on task.

ADAPTATIONS or
UDL connections

1. Students that need more of

a challenge will be asked
questions beyond what is
being asked in I-xl.
2. Different worksheets
depending on the students
level and ability.

Students will have white

boards to write out their
answers.

CLOSURE:

The students will be asked

one last I-xl question to work
on their own to answer on the
white boards so the teachers
can see if they got the answer
right and how they got their
answer.

The teacher will help check

students answers on the
white boards. The teacher
will also ask the students to
say aloud what they
learned.

Students will be given a

worksheet depending on their
level and ability. They will be
checked for their ability to
add the money correctly.

Students will be given a

worksheet depending on
their level and ability. They
will be checked for their
ability to add the money
correctly.

Teaching model
used:
Independent practice

ASSESSMENT of
STUDENT
LEARNING:
Teaching model
used:
Independent work
worksheet

The teacher aide will

give Ashley an I-pad
to use and learn after
she no longer is able
to pay attention to the
lesson.

MATERIALS:

white boards, markers, erasers, fake money, 2 different

worksheets depending on their ability

I-pad

TECHNOLOGY:

Smart Board, the website I-xl

I-pad