Looking for some suggestions on counting money? Back in the spring, I wrote about the connection between counting coins and skip counting. The post includes instructions for how to modify Count Around the Circle for coin-counting, and it also includes the cards you can download and use for the routine. Now, on to tonight’s activity.
I made a couple of pages of coin cards, showing both the heads and tails sides. Copy several sheets of each on card stock to make a deck of cards. The cards can be used in a workstation for a coin-counting game of War. To play, each player takes 5 cards and lays them face up (Fig. 1). Players then organize their cards for counting, putting the larger coins first, next largest second, etc. (Fig. 2). Players count their coins by skip counting, and the player with the greatest value takes all the cards. Players can record their work in their math journals for added practice and accountability (Fig. 3). Of course, you can easily modify the game by having the students use more or less cards.
Here’s another tip. Be sure to include a hundred chart in the workstation to help kiddos with the skip counting. You can grab your free coin cards here.
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I will put these in workstations today. I know they will skip count, but I hope they use multiplication when counting coins too.
Oh good! You might have them represent it as multiplication, for example(2 x 25) + (1 x 10) + (2 x 5), to show they understand that it’s multiplication, but in real-life I think they’re probably going to skip-count. Again, multiple representations is always good!
This little game is great! I will play it with my 2nd grade granddaughter who is currently working on money. Thank you!
Cindy
Granny Goes to School
You’re so welcome, Cindy! A grandmother who works on math with her granddaughter…gotta love it!
My class loves this game! They play with several cards to see who has the highest total. Thanks for making these!