Counting Money under and over a dollar is a skill we have practiced in class recently because it is a skill our kids will practice for the rest of their lives. Performing the skill on a paper-based test or assignment is a bit different than doing it in the real world. For one, you cannot rearrange the pictured coins. We teach our kids that an easier way to count coins and bills is to group them and then skip count from the highest to the lowest value. But if they can't move the coins, then how do they group them? We have used a strategy called "Group, Count and Cross Out" to address this issue. Children group the pictured coins by drawing each coin as a circle with it's corresponding value inside. Then they skip count from the highest to lowest value, while putting the new total under the coin and crossing out the coins already counted. Students sometimes make the mistake of counting a single coin twice or not counting it at all. When we ask kids to show their brain (write their mathematical thinking on paper) this is how we do it. Please see the picture about and look out for this strategy the next time your child has to count coins on a paper-based assignment.
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