Activity Overview
Students investigate the value of the digits in $8,205.50 and determine the number of thousands, hundreds, tens, ones and even the number of dimes and pennies. The concept is then extended to additional situations. They learn where to place a decimal when writing amounts of money and to perform addition and subtraction operations with money.
Before the Activity
See the attached PDF file for detailed instructions for this activity
Print pages 45 - 56 from the attached PDF file for your class
During the Activity
Distribute the page to the class.
Follow the activity procedures:
Activity A:
Discuss the idea of a field trip and read the book to the class
Activity B:
Calculate and record the money collected and spent in the story with the help of a TI-10
Activity C:
Find out how many thousands, hundreds, tens, ones, dimes and pennies are in the amount stated in the story
Similarly find out the number of hundreds, tens, ones, dimes and pennies are in the amount of money collected in the cafeteria
Activity D:
Find the number of bills and coins needed for the PTA collection of $ 3,091.82
Observe that nine tens and no hundreds are neededActivity E:
Pass out a set of number tiles, instruct students to construct, read numbers, identify the values of the digits by following oral directions
Use the table to show different combination of coins that can be used to make forty cents
After the Activity
Review student results:
As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
Re-teach concepts as necessary