Learning With Money Activity Kit: $2,801,040 in play money to cut out and help learn counting, addition, multiplication and large numbers.

by David E McAdams

Overview

Learning with Play Money: Hands-On Activities for Financial Fun!

This interactive book of play money provides a fun and engaging way for children to develop essential math and financial skills. With cut-out bills and creative learning activities, students will practice recognizing values, counting money, making change, and solving real-world money problems-all through hands-on play!

Activities Include:

1. Recognizing Value - Show a bill and ask, "What is the value of this bill?"
2. Counting Money - Pile up some bills and ask, "How much money is here?" Or, place bills in a wallet and ask, "How much is inside?"
3. Understanding Equality - Show different bill denominations and ask, "How many smaller bills equal this larger bill?"
4. Multiplication with Money - A toy costs $2. If you buy one for yourself, one for your sibling, and one for a friend, how much do you need?
5. Making Exact Payments - A new drone costs $123. What combination of bills can be used to pay the amount? What is the fewest number of bills needed?
6. Adding Prices - Mark prices on pretend groceries and ask, "What is the total?" Have students use play money to "pay" the amount.
7. Rounding Up - Ask, "If an item costs $47, how many $10 bills do you need to pay for it?"
8. Checking Affordability - Give the student some play money and ask, "Do you have enough to buy a pony for $100? If not, how much more do you need?"
9. Race to $20 Game - Students take turns adding bills to a pile, trying to make exactly $20. If they go over, they're out, and the game restarts!
10. Comparing Values - Show two bills and ask, "Which is worth more?" (Sometimes use two bills of the same denomination for a challenge!)
11. Money War Game - Players place bills from their stacks in the center. The highest bill wins! In case of a tie, players draw four more bills, with the fourth bill breaking the tie.
12. Money Riddles - Example: Jill's total is $16. She pays with four bills. What combination of bills did she use?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632703286
Publisher:	Life Is a Story Problem LLC
Publication date:	06/02/2023
Series:	Math Books for Children , #13
Edition description:	Black and White ed.
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.21(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

After 30 years of software development, David McAdams was looking for something new to do. He turned his attention to math instruction. Through his coursework at Utah Valley University, he learned how critical vocabulary acquisition is to all learning, and especially to math. Math has long been regarded as its having its own language, with its own syntax and symbols. The acquisition of this language has been found to be a barrier to many students.Aftaer the completion of his internship, Mr. McAdams finished compiling vocabulary words into a comprehensive dictionary, written for middle school and high school students. "All Math Words Dictionary" is the culmination of eight years work collecting, classifying and describing all of the words a student might encounter in their studies of algebra, geometry, and calculus. This book has over 3000 entries; more than 140 notations defined; in excess of 790 illustrations; an IPA pronunciation guide; and greater than 1400 formulas and equations.While working on the dictionary, between playing with his grandchildren, Mr. McAdams started developing other ideas for math literacy. The results are "Numbers", "What is Bigger than Anything (Infinity)", "Swing Sets (Set Theory)", and "Learning with Play Money".Branching out, Mr. McAdams took a departure from teaching tools into the arena of pure mathematical delight. This results in two volumes of "My Favorite Fractals".While reading a book on colors to his grandson Sawyer, got to thinking how boring books are colors are for adults. "What in the natural world," he mused, "has enough of the primary and secondary colors to teach colors to children?" His answer was either frogs or parrots. He created "Parrot Colors", "Flower Colors", and "Space Colors".Returning to math, Mr. McAdams remembered how, in his youth, he found a few printouts of geometric nets and was fascinated how they folded together into complex, 3-dimensional objects. He prepared "Geometric Nets Project Book, then "Geometric Nets Mega Project Book.