Counting Dimes, Nickels & Pennies for First Grade Math

Video Transcript

"Now we're ready to combine dimes, nickels, and pennies, so we're going to go over here. And ofcourse we start by tens and again I'm still giving them the largest coin as far as numerical value. The largest coin first and then working my way down. We're not going to mix them up. We're also keeping all the dimes, nickels, and pennies all together. We're not slipping them in between each other. And that will come down the road where we teach children how to seperate them and count them the bigger ones first, so let's count ten, twenty, thirty. Switch to fives. Thirty-five, forty, forty-five. Switch to ones. Forty-five, forty-six, forty seven and there we have it forty-seven cents. And again ten, twenty stop. Switch to fives. Twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty. Switch to ones. Forty-one, forty-two, forty-three. You can write it either way and another way that you can show them is with our number grid every once in a while, you can pull it out and the same way we can go back to our skip counting and talk about times counting ten, twenty, thirty. Stop could by fives. Thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five. Stop count by ones. Fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight and that really helps solidify it in their minds."