Do you have 5s? We do. I have to say I never think to work with money with my kids because we use cash so rarely. Even if I send them into a shop alone, I will sometimes give them cash but often they'll take a credit card now that you can just wave the card at the machine for small purchases. Talk about lost skills!
You've got that right!
Ah, the education value of going to the sweet shop to buy candy on the walk to school at so many a penny etc.
No wonder we never had trouble with simple arithmetic and even fractions were easy in those days LOL
Especially with the half p coin.
hee - that's funny! i started with money as a way IN to arithmetic with DD5. i think it really helped for her to see the connections between 1s/10s/100s so multi-digit addition/subtraction was a snap. i did have a hard time tracking down pennies since Canada recently retired the 1¢ piece, but it was really worth the trouble. fractions and multiplication/division have also been well served by money counting - oh, and analog clock problems worked, too! those have also been great for reinforcing number sense in a fun, visual way.
but i bet DD5 would enjoy some Sweet Shop Math even more!
