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Sandie,
A game that I love playing with my kids is the “exchange game”. We each start by rolling a die and taking as many pennies as the roll of the die indicates. When you get enough pennies to make an exchange to a nickle, you do it. When you get enough nickles to change to a dime, you do it. When you get enough dimes/nickles to change to a quarter, you do it. When you get enough quarters to get to a dollar, you do it. You could make it a contest, but we really just like exchanging the coins!
Some other notes about counting by 5s, 10s and 25s — we did a lot of chanting in order to memorize those. Once we had those under our belts, we practiced counting money amounts just with quarters or just with dimes or just with nickles. Then we threw in dimes and nickles, counting by 10s first and then by 5s from there. Then we did quarters and nickles, and finally quarters nickles and dimes. Here, I encouraged counting quarters first, then using any nickles to get to a multiple of 10, then counting by 10s and finishing up the 5s. You can even do a mental “exchange” of two nickles for a dime in order to make the couning up with nickles easier. If you don’t have any nickles in order to get to a multiple of 10, we do a backwards exchange of a dime into two nickles so that we can get to that all important multiple of 10 and then work our way up again. I hope that made some kind of sense. Eventually they can sort of visualize that backwards exchange so they don’t have to actually do it. It’s how we facilitated learning to add 10 to any number, in fact.
Love, Beckie
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