Elementary arithmetic book 1 money?

When my daughter was younger we played “store” I got a cashier set from dollar tree and we made store tags with different prices of just cents and not dollars at first. Just random numbers and changing them out when she knew how to do them. She loved gathering items for her store and picking what the prices were. We took turns me as cashier and she gave me the change I needed for the total and then I was the customer.  We played store all the time. She thought it was a game. She learned. Slowly. But she got there. When she would count I would praise and help if needed and then when she did it fluently I changed it up. I would say could I have it back in all Nickles? Or dimes? Or both? And once that was easy I added dollars. After a while we changed from plastic to real money to prep her for the real store. And it’s been 3 years. She gets it now. But we played store a lot! She’s working on multiplication and division so well that it’s hard to imagine she struggles with money. When money was so tangible but for her the concept was hard. Took 3 years. I moved on past money and kept teaching math all the while playing store a couple days a week, and as her addition and subtraction skills grew her money abilities grew. Money is very broad covers so many areas of math. Place value, addition, subtraction, rounding, substitution, greater and less than,  fractions ( 4 quarters is 1 whole dollar..)… you get the idea. I didn’t want to hover over what frustrated her I wanted it a light and happy so moving on and visiting money and store a couple times a week in my house helped my girl. I hope that helps and answers your question. I never watched the CM  video or read the book, I really want a copy of both) but I hope that doesn’t conflict with how they said it’s suppose to be done. Just what worked in our day. 😊😊

Morgan

Hi Nicki,
I’m sorry that I’m a few weeks in responding. How are things going now? Have you already done the lessons on “Formal Introduction of Money”?

You will see that there are a lot of money questions in Book 1 (as there are in the next few books). CM students did a good number of shopping exercises in their Numbers lessons and you should feel the freedom to do the same and intersperse it with your normal lessons, of course. I would suggest doing it with the pennies and dimes mainly as it will help solidify place value.

Since the dime can’t be physically broken apart, sometimes it takes longer to grasp. You may intersperse some lively “store” while also continuing on and revisiting it from time to time, just marking a page with one of the ribbon bookmarks as a reminder.

hth.

Warmly,
Richele