An interactive PowerPoint program to help students work with money. Click on picture to animate. I Can Count Money An interactive PowerPoint program to help students work with money.

Students will learn The names of coins and what they are worth. Different ways of finding the sum of a group of coins. How to add and subtract money written in decimal form. How to make change.

Students should have a solid understanding of coin identification and coin values. Students will visit web sites that a very helpful towards their understanding of coins and values. Click on the money bag to view a good site

Identify coins and their value. Find the sum of groups of coins.

Skip Counting After the students can identify the coins and know their value, the next step is to learn to count them.

Skip counting Skip counting is essential to counting money. Students will learn to count by 5’s and 10’s and then alternately by 5’s and 10’s.

Adding Subtracting and counting Money Students will be taught and practice the algorithms and protocols for adding and subtracting money. Regrouping skills will be necessary for this.

Adding and subtracting and counting money

Money is a tough concepts for primary students. Teaching Money is tough Money is a tough concepts for primary students. Teaching the concepts must be done in a systematic manner beginning with coin values, to adding by skip counting, to adding with algorithms. Working with money is possibly one of the most practical and difficult subjects students will deal with.