Overview - COUNTING MONEY & MAKING CHANGE
Product Type: Book
Author: Nancy Lobb
Number of Pages: 48 pages
Reproducible: Yes
Reading Level: High interest/Low level readability
Age Appropriate Level: Grades 6-12 Special Education
Copyright: 1989
This useful and practical guide to basic money skills is a valuable addition to special education classrooms, as teachers guide their students through 44 sequential skills in using U.S. currency. The book includes 48 blackline masters focusing on learning to count money and make change, divided into easy sub-steps. Each easy-to-use exercise is designed to provide practice of only one skill plus reinforcement of previously mastered steps, with little or no reading required. The careful sequencing of skills allows students to succeed in these essential life skills.
In addition, students will enjoy exercises that involve buying "real" items of interest to them, and several exercises involve solving a riddle or puzzle while practicing a money skill. (For example, "Making Change in a Grocery Store" puts the student in the role of cashier, marking the change they would give for each order paid with a $20 bill. In "Buying School Supplies," students mark the coins they get in change from buying items priced less than 50 cents.)
Components
Pre/Post Test. A pretest and posttest are included in the package. The pretest allows the teacher to evaluate whether the student has the prerequisite skills for proceeding through the exercises. These prerequisite skills include: The student can name each coin correctly, knows the value of each coin, knows coin equivalents (for example, 5 pennies equal a nickel), can count by 5s, 10s, 25s to 100, and can write amounts of money correctly (for example "eighty-nine cents" is written $.89).
The posttest includes material from the entire package. This allows the teacher to evaluate the student's mastery of the skills of counting money and making change.
The book designed to require a minimum of teacher direction. However, teachers may wish to preview the following vocabulary words with some students: penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar bill, change, value coin, bill, and dollar sign ($) and cent sign (>).
Worksheets. The 48 reproducible worksheets are divided into three sections:
Part One: Counting Money
Pretest I
Pretest II
Identifying Coins
Coin Flashcards
Counting Nickels and Pennies
Counting Dimes, Nickels and Pennies
Counting Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies
Count Your Change
The Hardware Store
Which Is More?
The Change Game
Count the Coins
Part Two: Making Change
The Penny-Candy Display
The Novelty Shop
The Craft & Hobby Shop
Change from a Quarter
Is It Right?
The Tackle Shop
Buying School Supplies
The Bakery
Keep On Counting!
A Change Chart
The Farmer's Market
Change from a Dollar
Shopping for a Picnic
The Concessions Stand
Making Money Count
Keep Track of Your Change
Every Penny Counts
What's the Change?
Check Your Change
Bill Flashcards
Counting Change from $5
Change Your Ways!
Shopping for a Party
Making Change in a Service Station
Selling Tickets at the Fair
Making Change in a Grocery Store
A Change Riddle
And More!!
Special Features
An answer key is provided, including answers for all the exercises, a list of additional instructional activities suggests ideas for reinforcing the skills presented, and the pretest and posttest provide a ready-made evaluation tool.