Counting Change for First Grade Math

Video Transcript

"Once your child has mastered counting the first three coins combined and remember this may take weeks months, don't rush this, they are ready after they mastered the first three, to add the almighty quarter. So let's look over here. With our quarter we want to again introduce the quarter to just one coin at a time so start them with quarters and pennies and do that for just a couple days, quarters and pennies. Start with twenty-fives, and then twenty-six, twenty-seven, and you know of course you can add more coins than that. But then after a few days, go on to quarters and nickels, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty and then leave that aside after a few days. Then quarters and dimes. Twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five, fifty-five and then you can talk about why it holds onto the five for each one, so we have fifty-five cents and once they've mastered these three, and don't rush it but do it every day and do it a lot, once you think they're ready then you can throw in all four coins and it'll just come like magic because you did it slowly and carefully and you gave them a lot of practice. So twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight and way before any other child, your child will be counting all the money in the house."