Daily Lesson Plan

Date : 4th March 2008

Year : One

Number of students : 17

Subject : Mathematics

Title : Money

Duration : 30 minutes

Skills : Solving problems involving money using addition in daily situation.

Learning outcomes : At the end of this lesson, students will be able to

1. Add two values with total less than RM10.00 (without carrying).

2. Add fives values with total less than RM10.00 (without carrying).

3. Adding varying amounts of money with total less than RM10.00 (without carrying).

Pre-requisite
knowledge: 1. Students know addition facts and processes

2. Students can add two numbers with total less than 100.

3. Students know the relationship between symbols RM and Sen.

4. Students can add amounts of money using correct symbols for RM and Sen.

Critical Thinking Skills:

Classify information, discover relationships, explain, compare and contrast, create, predict information, compare and
contrast data and evaluate.

Values:
Thrifty, respect differences, responsibility towards the use of money, accuracy, problem solving, cooperation

Integration:
(a) Inter : Communication in English
(b) Inter : Addition facts and processes

Resources/materials:
Calculator, money models, items from ads with prices, concrete items, white board, song lyrics & laptop.
STEPS CONTENT
A song
Set induction (That Doggie in The Window)
(5 minutes)
How much is that doggie in
the window?
The one with the wiggly tail;
How much is that doggie in
the window?
I do hope that doggie’s for
sale.
Calculate total cost of two
Step 1 items using addition process.
(10 minutes) The total cost does not exceed
RM10 and without carry
forward.
Example:
RM3.00 + RM3.50 = RM6.50
RM2.50 + RM4.30 = RM6.80
RM6.20 + RM1.50 = RM7.70
TEACHING & LEARNING REMARKS
ACTIVITIES
Teacher displays lyrics of the song (That Critical thinking:
Doggie in The Window) on slide and play explain, compare and
the recorded song to the class. contrast
Students to sing along with the teacher. Value:
Teacher shows a toy dog to the class and Thrifty, responsibility
asks a few questions: towards the use of
money
1. Do you have a toy dog at home?
Resources/materials:
2. How much is your toy dog? slide, laptop, toy dog,
song lyrics.
Let us go shopping. Critical thinking:
explain, compare and
1. Tell the students that we are to go contrast
shopping today. Go to the mock store and
pick up two items then go to an imaginary Value:
payment counter, and say that the total is Thrifty, responsibility
RM6.50. Ask the class how I got that. towards the use of
money, exact.
2. Tell the class that today we are going to
go shopping, and practice adding money Resources/materials:
together, so we will know how to figure Model money,
out total cost. calculator, concrete
items
3. Also tell the class that since we are
working with money, it is very important
to always remember to use RM sign and
sen sign. It is also necessary to use a
decimal point.
4. Get four students to simulate shopping
situation: two students as shoppers, one as
salesman and one as cashier.
5. Each shopper will pick up two items
and the cashier will calculate the total cost
of the items on the whiteboard.
 Calculate total cost of Station activity Critical thinking:
Step 2 five items using addition Compare and contrast,
(10 minutes) process. The total cost 1. Teacher demonstrates addition process for classify information
does not exceed RM10 five values on the white board.
and without carry Value:
forward. 2. A station activity will be carried out to add Thrifty, cooperation,
Example: five values. exact, respect each other
RM2.00 + RM3.50 +
RM1.10 + RM1.05 + 3. Divide the class into five groups. Each Resources/materials:
RM1.10 = RM8.75 group will be given a purchase list. Purchase list, posters

4. Five posters with pictures and listed price of

different items will be pasted on five different
places in the class (to be named station 1 to
station 5)

5. Each group will be given 2 minutes to look

out for the items and their prices according to
the purchase list given.

6. A whistle is used to control the movement of

students from one station to another.

7. At the end of the fifth round, the students

will sit at their respective places to add up the
values of five items.

8. The group who can give the accurate answer

in the shortest time is declared the winner.

Summarized today’s Teachers will summaries the content for this Critical thinking:
Closure teaching content. lesson through questioning technique. Problem solving
Mention the important Teacher will distribute work sheet for home
(5 minutes) points to remember when work. Encourage students to add money when Value:
adding money. they go shopping with their parents. Careful, exact and neat
Remind students to hand
in homework the next Resources/materials:
day. Worksheet 1

 Reflection:

 Lecturer’s Comment:
Worksheet 1: Money

It costs RM2.50 for an adult to go swimming and RM1.50 for a child.

1. How much would it cost for Sarah to go swimming with her mum?
2. How much would it cost for John to go swimming with his dad?
3. How much would it cost Gary to go swimming with his mum and dad?
4. How much would it cost for Dave to go swimming with his brother Tom, and their mum and dad?
5. A family ticket costs RM8.50, would it be cheaper for them to buy a family ticket?
6. On a weekend it costs 50 sen more to go swimming for each person. If Dave and Sarah go swimming on their
own on a Thursday how much cheaper would it be than going at a weekend?
7. How much more would a family ticket cost at the weekend?