Cluster 8: Problem Solving with Money

 In cluster 8, students solve real-world problems involving money building on their knowledge from first grade, where students identified quarters, dimes, and nickels and related their values to pennies. While students were initially introduced to coin values in first grade, a few days of this cluster will need to be spent on the reviewing coin names and values, and introducing conversions between and among coins. (ex: 5 dimes = 50¢ = 2 quarters). All problem types, including two-step problems should be incorporated into money situation problems in this cluster.  (See About this Cluster and the Unpacking Document below for more details on this cluster.)