Third Grade Money Games
Learning to add and subtract is an important skill to be learned by students in the third grade. Money games are fundamental learning tools used to assist in educating schoolchildren in mathematics and managing money. There are numerous third-grade money games for online or in-class play that can be incorporated into a teacher's lesson plan or used by parents tutoring schoolchildren.
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Money Stacks
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Money Stacks lets a child work on coin-counting skills. A fun game for third graders encourages enhanced math skills in a coin stacking game. This game can be played at home or in the classroom and requires only a handful of change. Allow each child a handful of assorted coins. Children are instructed to first separate the coins into categorical stacks (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters), and then count the coins and add the sums of each stack. The player with the correct answer, and the most money, is deemed the winner.
Online Money Desk
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One of numerous interactive online third grade money games is The Money Desk. Children can choose from three animated characters with which to play, and three difficulty levels (easy, normal, hard). Children view a virtual pile of coins on the computer monitor and the animated character that they chose will prompt them to count out random amounts of money. Using the mouse and cursor, kids drag the appropriate digital coins to an on-screen counting area where the virtual friend reveals if they are correct or not.
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Mad Money
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Mad Money lets kids pretend to shop and budget online. PBS Kids offers an interactive online money game for kids in the third grade that encourages enhanced math, saving and budgeting skills. Children are offered a daily allowance (the "days" are actually few second intervals), given a shopping list and a virtual community of shops, malls and stores to purchase listed items. Kids can conduct make-believe purchases while earning, spending and budgeting the pretend money they've earned in this online money game.
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