The Mindful Math First Grade Graphing & Money unit includes activities, graph & coin worksheets, posters, and 9 math lessons for teaching coin identification, counting money, bar graphs, and picture graphs. You need only this unit to teach US and Canadian money and coins, financial literacy, and money word problems!

This differentiated math unit has everything you need (lesson plans, math centers, worksheets & math games, I Can & vocabulary posters, number talks, math assessments, and more).

⭐It was created to give teachers a ready-to-teach math curriculum that is fun, engages minds, and leaves students knowledgeable and fluent in math concepts.

⭐Go from boring, complicated math to lessons that are enjoyable, effective, and easy to use. This comprehensive, differentiated unit has everything you need to teach the second-grade standards.

⭐This ready-to-teach unit of teacher-tested, hands-on math curriculum provides teachers with EVERYTHING they need to teach second-grade math with no need to supplement from other sources.

❤️Mindful MATH for 1st Grade has what teachers LOVE!

• Easy to implement, effective lesson and activities that kids enjoy!
• Detailed, easy-to-teach lesson plans that take the guesswork out of what to teach!
• ALL lesson materials provided so you don't have to waste time gathering supplies!
• "I CAN" and concept posters to introduce topics so your students understand concepts more easily!
• Extra items like number talks, discussion questions, vocabulary posters, and more!
• A variety of activities for every lesson (math games and centers) to keep engagement high!
• Build math skills and develop fluency with math journals, task cards, mental math, and TONS of differentiated practice worksheets!
• 3 types of assessments - Quick Check review cards, Post Tests for every lesson, and a unit test so you can check that your students understand what they need to know!

✔️Lessons Included in this 1st Grade Unit:

1. Identify and Describe Coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)
2. Counting Coins (represent amounts & counting multiples in groups)
3. Counting Mixed Groups of Coins (represent amounts)
4. Financial Literacy (money as a medium of exchange)
5. Financial Literacy (needs and wants; spending and saving)
6. Collect and Organize Data on Pictographs Picture Graphs
7. Collect and Organize Data on Bar Graphs (cont.)
8. Display and Describe Data on Graphs
9. Create A Graph (collect, organize, display, and describe data collected)

✔️SOME of the ENGAGING & MINDS-ON activities included in Graphing & Money:

• Tons of differentiated practice printables
• Math journal prompts
• Task cards
• Quick check assessments
• Coin posters
• My Coin Mini-Book
• Money Scoot
• Coin Counting clip cards
• Coin puzzles
• Coin counting story problems
• Class store activity with price tags
• Coin mobile
• Needs vs. Wants sort
• Graph posters
• Class graphing activities
• Spin & Graph games
• Grocery Graphing board game
• Student surveys
• Graphing Scoot
• Create your own graph lesson
• & MORE!

✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides!

✏️ Lesson Overview & Plans: Comprehensive lesson plans with clear instructions for whole group lessons, individual practice, and follow-up activities. Includes goals, vocabulary, materials list, and book suggestions.

✏️ Unit Overview: Includes 10 lessons that can be broken down to multiple days of instruction aligned with US Common Core, B.C., and Ontario curriculum standards.

✏️ Lesson Materials: All necessary materials, including math manipulatives like ten frames and number lines, are provided to support each lesson.

✏️ "I Can" Posters & Vocabulary Posters: Includes “I Can” concept posters for every lesson and vocabulary posters in color and B&W for classroom display.

✏️ Warm-Up Task Cards: Short, independent math activities that build fluency and reinforce previous lessons.

✏️ Journal Prompts: Perfect for warm-ups, extra practice, or homework. These prompts review concepts from the previous lesson.

✏️ Number Talks: Open-ended math questions with speaking prompts to encourage whole group discussion and interaction. Slides provided for easy display!

✏️ Mental Math Flash Cards: Designed for quick recall and to build mental math skills, suggested for whole group warm-up activities.

✏️ Practice Worksheets: Printable pages for independent practice, with varying difficulty levels to allow for differentiation.

✏️ Hands-On Activities (Math Centers and Games): Includes math games, activities, and centers with instructions, available in color and B&W. Instruction pages also provided.

✏️ Assessments: Quick Checks, post-tests, and unit test for both informal and formal assessment, plus a tracking template for scores.

✏️ Supplemental Materials: Includes answer keys for the worksheets and tests, a suggested book list, and extra pages with Canadian-specific content and spelling.

Note:

• US Buyers: Aligned with US Common Core standards, focusing on second-grade skills.
• Canadian Buyers: Aligns with B.C. and Ontario curriculum standards, with additional pages for Canadian content. A separate PDF is provided.

⭐️Math Common Core Standards covered in this unit:

• CCSS.1.MD.C.4

⭐️Buy the 1st Grade Mindful Math Curriculum bundle and SAVE $$$ off buying the units separately! See the individual resources and PREVIEWS to see what is included.⭐️

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Corinna B. says, "Our current math curriculum doesn't cover money in depth and as I just moved to a new grade level this year, I needed a good resource for our unit. I like all the games and activities."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yvonne C. says, "This resource was a great find to support my planning in teaching financial literacy to my grade one students. The curriculum had been changed this year and this resource did an outstanding job in guiding me towards the key concepts that my students needed to learn about. The planned activities were engaging and helped the students to connect with the world around them. I wish to say thank you for giving me a resource that guided not only my teaching efforts but assisted the students to learn such a valuable concept. Many thanks for your hard work and efforts to make resources like this possible."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ashley J. says, "It can be really challenging to find great money units with Canadian currency, so I was thrilled to find this! I love all of the mindful math units I have tried so far, and this is no exception! Fun and engaging for my students and so easy for me to implement!

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