Time and Money:
Cardboard Cash
Register
Today's
Snack: For
this activity, you can use small cardboard boxes OR leftover plastic containers
to make your own cash register. If you like those little snack packs that
combine cheese or peanut butter dip with crackers, save them for a while. Wash
with soap and water, and dunk in a solution of a gallon of water and a
quarter-cup of bleach. Let dry. Then you can tape five of them together for
this activity! Save one for your own snack today, and have a glass of milk with
it.
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Supplies:
At least four each of pennies,
nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills
Small cardboard boxes | masking tape
or duct tape
Print out the money amounts, below
- Here's how to "make change" in your mastery of the
basic math facts. You do it by . . . making change! Using coins and dollar
bills, that is.
- First, make a little cardboard cash register out
of small cardboard boxes or plastic containers, such as the snackpacks
described in Today's Snack, above. If you're going to play this as a game,
make two cash registers.
- To make one, tape five containers side by side
from the bottom.
- Fill the register, from left to right, in this
order, with: dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
- Print out this list, below, and cut the dollar
amounts apart, or cut up some scratch paper and copy these or make up your
own dollar amounts. Make them under $5.
- To play, mix up the cards and place face down.
Taking turns, turn over a card, and as fast as you can, collect the coins
or bills that add up to that amount and place them on the table in front
of you.
- For $4.87, for example, you'd pull out the four
dollar bills, three quarters, one dime, and two pennies.
- Another game: when you turn over the card, then
make change from $5.00 from that amount. This will build your subtraction
skills! So if you turn over $4.87, you will need to collect one dime and
three pennies - because 13 cents + $4.87 = $5.00.
- Older students can try turning over two cards
and adding them in their heads, then collecting the change to represent
that amount. You might need nine dollar bills if you play that game, in
case you happen to pull $4.39 and $4.87. After you've played this game for
a while, you will know it's going to be over nine dollars!
$1.04 $1.16 $1.28 $1.56 $2.37
$2.76 $3.15 $3.93 $4.39 $4.87
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