This year I started my
money unit differently than normal. In conversation, I realized that my students know the coin names and values and have a general idea of how to count coins. They haven’t mastered counting a random collection of
coins, but understand the process at least.
I like for my students to have a baggie of coins that we can use throughout our money unit. Well, I never get these ready in advance because I’m a #slacker. Instead of rushing around this morning to do so, I decided it would be great for my kiddos to make their own baggies. They ended up having to identify the coins themselves, do a little sorting, and gather their own collection. I used my
large magnetic coins to model what their baggies needed.
On the inside we recorded minimal information… how to write the amounts in different ways. I wanted to keep it simple with what they really needed to know.
So far it looks like we will have success with coin counting! Let’s hope the rest of the week goes as smoothly, ha!
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We are tackling the same thing in my class! It is definitely adding amounts of mixed coins that is giving my little friends fits!
What do you do with your advanced kids? I have about 7 in my class that can count way beyond a dollar and all kinds of mixed coins and the rest of my class is struggling so I'm looking for advanced money activites for those 7,any ideas?thank you