Love it or hate it, money makes the world go ‘round.
Well, not exactly- that’s physics, but there’s no denying its importance in
today’s modern world. Building numeracy skills using money is a great way to
get your kids excited about math. Plus, it gives you a reason to clean out your
car’s cup-holders and all that loose change that accumulates on top of your
washer from cleaning out pockets before throwing a load in. Ok, maybe that’s
just me…
With our school’s 100th day quickly
approaching, I’ve been scouring the internets and racking my brain trying to
come up with fun learning activities for the big day. Although there are
zillions of ideas out there, many of them are far too easy for my students. But
this one was the perfect 100th day math activity I’ve been searching
for- “How many ways can you make a dollar?” This is a good one for our class
because the math books we use are made in Hong Kong so all the word problems
deal in HKD, while our national currency in Vietnam is the VND with mostly
notes and really high values. They don’t often get the chance to work with US
coins and bills, so they were doubly interested.
For this activity, I brought in a bunch of loose
change that I had in my stash from the states and made this corresponding worksheet
for them to log their answers. Here’s a copy of the worksheet if you want to do
this in your class. Enjoy!
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