Five pages on counting Canadian money and writing amounts, for Grades 2 and 3. Page 1 starts with a table: how many quarters, dimes and nickels make $1 and $2. Then children count groups of coins in cents and circle Yes or No: does the group make exactly $1? Page 2 counts bills and coins, starting with the one worth the most, and writes the total in dollars and cents, up to $200. Page 3 shows rows of three groups of coins: children circle the two worth the same, then fill in tables of different ways to make $1 with coins and $20 with bills and toonies. Page 4 has eight things to buy: children write the coins and bills that pay each price with the fewest pieces; there is only one fewest way for each. Page 5 is about writing amounts: in French, $3.45 is written 3,45 $, with a comma for the point and the dollar sign after the number. Children fill in a table with each amount in cents, in dollars and the French way, then count money and write the total both ways. The coins and bills are our own drawings, in the real shapes, colours and sizes.
Set out play money before page 1 and count a handful together, biggest first, out loud: 25, 50, 75, 85, 95. Ask how many quarters make a loonie, then how many make a toonie. For page 3, give groups of children the same amount to make and compare their different ways. Before page 5, show a price tag from a French flyer or a bilingual receipt and read the amount both ways.
Count the coins in a piggy bank or a wallet together, biggest first. Ask your child to make the same amount two different ways, then with the fewest coins. Look at price tags and bilingual signs, and read the amounts the English way and the French way.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Counting Canadian coins and bills, and writing amounts in cents, in dollars and the French way. Students count coins in cents and bills and coins in dollars, show the same amount in different ways, pay with the fewest coins and bills, and write $3.45 as 3,45 $.
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