Great Idea For Teaching Money

Haroula is about to teach her Grade 1 students about how to add coins together.  She has found from past experience that sometimes the students have a hard time understanding that a coin that is smaller than a penny (a dime) is worth more than the penny.  So she created a number line system where the value of the coin (e.g, a dime) will go for exactly 10 spaces.  Therefore as the students line the coins up on the number line, it will tell them what the final total is.  Here are pictures of her great idea:

This is what the number line looks like.

An up close view of the first few numbers.

The picture of the dime goes ten spots on the number line.

The penny goes one spot - A dime + a penny = 11 cents.  It ends at 11 on the number line.

She used real clip art images for the coins and then used the paper cutter to cut out the coins.

This idea might seem a little time consuming, but once you have done it, I think it will help save you a lot of time teaching the concept of adding and subtracting money amounts.  I will put the template up on the FOS Wiki.  Thank you to Haroula for sharing this great idea!