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Represent money values in multiple ways
Recognise the relationship between dollars and cents
Represent equivalent amounts of money using different denominations
Perform calculations with money, including finding change
Indoor or outdoor playing area
Money cards
Cones/markers
Print money cards with different values depicted on each, eg. 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, $2, $50, $100
Players form groups to make different monetary totals.
Each student is given a piece of paper with a visual picture of money on it.
Teacher calls out a locomotor skill for students to use to move around marked space.
When whistle is blown, teacher calls out a value and students must form a group to make the total, eg. Form a group worth $2.
Students break apart and move around the space again before repeating the process with a different value.
Work with larger dollar values.
Teacher calls out a number equation rather that a total. eg. $1.50 + 40c, I bought 3 oranges for 60c each.
Vary the locomotor skills.