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Making Cents
by Catie Gosselin
Have fun teaching
your kids numbers, money, values, and cards!
Materials : deck of playing cards, assortment of coins, chalk board
Skills : place value, money values, making change, addition |
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On the chalkboard, draw two blank lines. Explain to your child that you
will draw two cards from the deck, face cards are worth 1, aces are worth
0, and all other cards retain their value. The first card you draw is the
value for the ones place, the second card is the value for the tens place.
In other words, if you draw a 3 and a Queen that would be worth 13. Have
you child identify where to write each number according to its assigned
place value, and then identify how much the final result is worth. Next,
using the coin assortment, have your child find a combination that equals
the value on the board. Can they make the same value with any other
combination of coins?
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