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Goal: Count money using skip counting or repeated addition.

Wherever you go, bring your own sunshine! And Stella the Starfish because she knows how to calculate money!

Let’s review the value of coins. Can you correctly drag each tab to show the value of coins from greatest to least?

Use the W and S keys to arrange the items up or down.

quarter

dime

nickel

penny

Good job!

Let’s use all that we have learned and calculate coins to equal a dollar! When we have coins that add up to 100¢, we have $1.00. We can add up various coins to equal a $1 bill.

When we have $1.00, we use a decimal to show how many cents we have over 100¢. We can say $1.00 is one dollar and zero cents!

If we have a value below $1.00, we write the amount using a ¢, or cent, sign.

Let’s look at different ways coins can equal $1.00!

Let’s look at quarters. 4 quarters = $1.00.

You can use repeated addition to add the value of the quarters together:
25¢ + 25¢ + 25¢ + 25¢ = 100¢.

Next in coin value is dimes! 10 dimes = $1.00.

You can skip count by 10s to find the value of 10 dimes:
10¢, 20¢, 30¢, 40¢, 50¢, 60¢, 70¢, 80¢, 90¢, 100¢, or $1.00.

We can also add nickels to get $1! 20 nickels = $1.00.

You can skip count by 5s to find the value of 20 nickels:
5¢, 10¢, 15¢, 20¢, 25¢, 30¢, 35¢, 40¢, 45¢, 50¢, 55¢, 60¢, 65¢, 70¢, 75¢, 80¢, 85¢, 90¢, 95¢, 100¢, or $1.00.

You can add 100 pennies by counting by 1s.

You can add 100 pennies by counting by 1s.

Let’s practice finding the value of coins with Stella’s kites. She has 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 3 nickels, and 5 pennies on the tail of her kite. Let’s calculate the value of Stella’s coins!

starfish flying a kite on the beach with money as the kite tails 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 3 nickels, and 5 pennies

Remember, you have three steps to follow when adding money!

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