Hi All,
Yes, people still use coins. Not as much as back in the day, but there remains the need to know about physical money.
Here's a simple, but motivating game that will help. The reality is kids like money! They'll play this on their own for fun as long as you keep a big pile of money around. I like to keep it in one of those big holiday cookie tins. That way you can shake it, hear it, and really feel the weight. Engage all the senses!
The Trade Up Game can be altered to meet the needs of a range of grades and learners. There's lots of potential mental addition, skip counts, and combinations in addition to learning bill and coin identification and values. Plus, it's very hands-on!
1. Give players a die and a large pile of mixed coins and bills.
2. Players take turns rolling the die. Whatever number comes up, that's the amount (value) of money you take from the pile.
3. Players should try to create that amount with the least number of coins possible. For example, if a 6 is rolled, players should take a nickel and a penny rather than 6 pennies.
4. As players accumulate money, they trade up for higher value coins. Let's say you have 19 cents made up of a dime, a nickel, and 4 pennies, and you roll a 6. You could take 6 cents, but then you would immediately trade up to get 1 quarter.
5. Play continues to whatever goal you set. For beginners, it could be playing till you get a quarter or half dollar. For second grade it could go to a dollar or five dollars or even higher. Paper money makes things even more exciting. Kids love to see and handle bills and different coins, especially if you throw in something interesting like a two dollar bill or a Susan B. Anthony dollar.
6. This is a good game for two players up through four or five players. The more coins and bills you can collect for that pile in the middle, the better.
7. To change things up (no pun intended) you might also consider using more than one die or take blank cubes and number them with any numbers that will fit your students well.
Have fun! Since school is finishing up most everywhere, I'll stop posting these for now with plans to resume in late August when things start back up again, in whatever way, shape or form that happens to be. Till then, ya'll. Stay safe, be blessed, do the math!
Best,
Bob
Here's a simple, but motivating game that will help. The reality is kids like money! They'll play this on their own for fun as long as you keep a big pile of money around. I like to keep it in one of those big holiday cookie tins. That way you can shake it, hear it, and really feel the weight. Engage all the senses!
The Trade Up Game can be altered to meet the needs of a range of grades and learners. There's lots of potential mental addition, skip counts, and combinations in addition to learning bill and coin identification and values. Plus, it's very hands-on!
1. Give players a die and a large pile of mixed coins and bills.
2. Players take turns rolling the die. Whatever number comes up, that's the amount (value) of money you take from the pile.
3. Players should try to create that amount with the least number of coins possible. For example, if a 6 is rolled, players should take a nickel and a penny rather than 6 pennies.
4. As players accumulate money, they trade up for higher value coins. Let's say you have 19 cents made up of a dime, a nickel, and 4 pennies, and you roll a 6. You could take 6 cents, but then you would immediately trade up to get 1 quarter.
5. Play continues to whatever goal you set. For beginners, it could be playing till you get a quarter or half dollar. For second grade it could go to a dollar or five dollars or even higher. Paper money makes things even more exciting. Kids love to see and handle bills and different coins, especially if you throw in something interesting like a two dollar bill or a Susan B. Anthony dollar.
6. This is a good game for two players up through four or five players. The more coins and bills you can collect for that pile in the middle, the better.
7. To change things up (no pun intended) you might also consider using more than one die or take blank cubes and number them with any numbers that will fit your students well.
Have fun! Since school is finishing up most everywhere, I'll stop posting these for now with plans to resume in late August when things start back up again, in whatever way, shape or form that happens to be. Till then, ya'll. Stay safe, be blessed, do the math!
Best,
Bob
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