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Count the Kid Coins

Grade 2

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Math & Movement

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Activity Instructions

Have a various number of students stand on the mat on different rows. (E.g. 2 on the penny row, 1 on the dime row, 3 on the quarter row).

Ask them to say how much money the coin on their row is worth.

Then, have each student add by the denomination they are standing on to get a total for all the students on the mat.

Then, they all shout the total. (E.g. Following the above example, “25, 50, 75, 85, 86, 87, Eighty-Seven Cents!”


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