Purpose: Understanding values.

Materials: Several pieces of paper of different colors, cut to the size of a dollar bill. A one dollar bill.

Lesson: After you have had a chance to look at these pieces of paper, I want you to tell me which one you would like to have. Let's take a vote. If you could have one of these pieces of paper, how many would take this one? (Hold up the dollar bill.) I wonder why all (or most) of you chose the dollar bill? It's just a piece of paper like the others. It may look nicer than the others, since it has some printing on it; but if you wanted some paper to draw on, would you still take the dollar bill? (Yes, because then you could buy some plain paper to use.)

Of all the pieces of paper here, only the do…