happytobreathe
The Lazy Days of Summer
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I need a new strategy. How do I teach counting coins?
I have sung my brains out, used manipulatives, counted backwards and forwards.
How do you teach counting a group of coins?
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MissJones
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Re: I need a new strategy. How do I teach counting coins?
We always start with the bigger coins first, then get smaller. If it's on paper, I remind them to cross out the coin as they count it so they don't count it twice.
We also do a lot of counting the days of school using money. I will ask them to represnet 35 days of school using money. Since we do it everyday, they go home and come back with solutions and it gets them excited. They practice at home and it becomes a habit.
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Melbernai
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Melissa
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Re: I need a new strategy. How do I teach counting coins?
It is a really hard concept. I feel like without real life practice, it's hard to get.
However, I have tried a few things and my kids are getting good with it.
We count by 5s, 10s, and 25s almost daily. We do random start-stop counting, starting at various numbers. For example, we'll start counting by 10s starting at 37-47-57, etc. Stop, start at a new number. It helps them to count on from random numbers and not just from 0, which is more like real life situations.
We have played store before --- a whole weeklong event at the end of the school year where we find items in the class to "sell" tag them, make signs, the kids take turns buying and selling, making change.
I teach in NYC and in the everday math kit there are boxes of playing cards with different coin combinations on them. You can make these if you don't have the everyday math program buy buying coin rubber stamps and stamping combinations on index cards. My kids play "top it" or war with the coin cards. For example, kid A may have 37cents, kid B may have 19 cents, so kid A wins and keeps both cards.
Also my kids love playing coin scoops.
Each partnership gets a paper baggie with a bunch of coins in it, and a plastic spoon. They take turns using the spoon to scoop out a bunch of coins.
They then count the coins up, and write it in a small piece of paper. The parner checks the amount, and if it's correct the first kid keeps the paper, if it's wrong the partner writes the correct amount on the back and keeps it for him/herself. The partner who has the most slips of paper at the end of the game wins. I also did this for a demo lesson for a CALLA class at st. john's and everyone loved it.
Hope these ideas help!!
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