Counting Nickels & Pennies for First Grade Math

Series Summary

For parents with the time and inclination, home schooling can be a very rewarding experience. Your child learns what you think they should know, with you there every step of the way to monitor their progress. The internet has contributed greatly to the potential of a child to become skilled in areas which their parents may not feel qualified to teach them. And many resources, internet and otherwise, are available to help provide a well-rounded curriculum in the comfort and security of your own home. But the choice to home school involves a great deal of responsibility for both parent and child.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to teach your child first grade math lessons. Whether you are home schooling your first grader or simply want to encourage your child's math skills, our expert will go over some basic math lessons to help you help your child. You will learn how to teach kids how to count change, use addition and subtraction tables and do two and three digit addition or subtraction. You will also learn how to plan lessons teaching fractions with food and old text books. If you need help teaching your first grade math skills, let our expert show you everything you need to know.

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to learn how to combine coins as we count and add them up. Don't do this until they've mastered the art of counting the penny, nickel, dime, quarter and even dollar bills separately. Only after then do you combine different types of coins. It takes their brain a little bit extra to catch up to that but once you think they're ready, we'll start with just nickels and pennies and don't go any further than there until they've done that for a while. And so we have three nickels here and two pennies, now what I teach them is you start counting by the biggest one first, in this case fives, and we go five, ten, fifteen and then when we come to a new coin we stop, hold that fifteen, stop, now, switch to counting by what the next coin is and pennies we count by what? Ones, right? So hold that fifteen, we were on that fifteen with the nickels, now start counting by ones, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and then write your answer. In this case, we're moving away from the cent sign and we're just going to go like that. You can have them put a zero in there too if you like, you don't have to. And again, by ten, fifteen, twenty, hold it, stop, switch, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four and that is counting with nickels and pennies."