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Contents

Grades 1 and 2 ActivitiesGetting to Know Coins . . . . . . . . . . 3Drawing Your Own Coin . . . . . . . . . 10What Is the Value? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Comparing Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Estimating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13At the Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Coin Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Coin Subtraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Counting Nickels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Nickel Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Counting Dimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Dime Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Counting Dimes and Nickels . . . . . 21Counting Quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Counting Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Solve the Money Riddle . . . . . . . . . 28Circle the Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Trading Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Money Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Lunch Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34At the Snack Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Grocery Shopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Comparing Money Sets . . . . . . . . . 38Show the Money! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Equal Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Fewest Number of Coins . . . . . . . . 43Coin Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Coin Subtraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Draw Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Checking Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Grade 3 ActivitiesGetting to Know Canadian Coins . . 52Let’s Make $1 .00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Let’s Make $2 .00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Solve the Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Money Riddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Money Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Let’s Make $5 .00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Counting with Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Estimating Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Trading Coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Let’s Make $10 .00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Counting Bills and Coins . . . . . . . . 67Estimating Bills and Coins . . . . . . . 68Money Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69How Much Money? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Find the Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Comparing Money Values . . . . . . . 74If I Have . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Fewest Coins and Bills . . . . . . . . . . 78At the School Cafeteria . . . . . . . . . . 80Design Your Own $100 Bill . . . . . . . 84Money Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Canadian Money Word Search . . . 90

Money Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Create a Canadian Money Board Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Making Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Show the Money! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Canadian Money Flash Cards . . . . 99

Colouring Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Blackline Money Masters . . . . . . . 106

Student Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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Money Skills Checklist

Grade 14 Can identify and knows the value of a nickel, dime, quarter, loonie, and toonie

4 Can show money amounts up to 20¢ using coins

4 Can count to 100¢ using groups of nickels and dimes

4 Can add and subtract money to 10¢ using coins and drawings

Grade 24 Can create and determine coin value of 2-digit amounts using coins

(e .g ., 40¢ is equal to one quarter, one dime, and one nickel)

4 Can estimate, count, and write (using the ¢ symbol) the value of money to 100¢

4 Can add and subtract money amounts to 100¢ using coins and drawings by

• counting on

• estimating

• representing with symbols

4 Can represent, compare, and order money amounts to 100¢ using coins and drawings

4 Can identify growing and shrinking patterns when counting coins

4 Can create growing and shrinking patterns using coins and drawings of coins, starting at 20¢

Grade 34 Can show and discuss the relationships between coins and bills up to

a $10 value

4 Can estimate, count, and write (using the $ symbol) the value of coins and bills to $10

4 Can add and subtract money amounts using coins and drawings to make simulated purchases and change up to $10

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Getting to Know Coins

This is a nickel. 5¢ 5 cents

This is a dime. 10¢ 10 cents

This is a quarter. 25¢ 25 cents

This is a loonie. 100¢ 100 cents

This is a toonie. 200¢ 200 cents

¢ means cents

or 1 dollar

or 2 dollars

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Getting to Know CoinsDraw a line from the coin to its value. Then match the coin to its name.

100 cents toonie

10 cents loonie

5 cents nickel

200 cents dime

25 cents quarter

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Getting to Know CoinsDraw a line from the coin to its value.

This is a nickel.

This is a dime.

This is a quarter.

This is a loonie.

This is a toonie.

10¢

25¢

100¢

200¢

5¢

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Getting to Know CoinsWrite the value on the coin. Draw a line from the coin to its value in words.

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Write the amount in cents.

10¢ _______________________ 25¢ _______________________

5¢ _______________________ 100¢ _______________________

200¢ _______________________

100 cents

5 cents

200 cents

10 cents

25 cents

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Getting to Know Coins Write the value of the coin in cents. Then write the name of the coin. Use the money words.

nickel dime quarter loonie toonie

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Getting to Know CoinsDraw a picture of each coin.

This is a nickel. It is worth 5¢.

This is a dime. It is worth 10¢.

This is a quarter. It is worth 25¢.

This is a loonie. It is worth 100¢.

This is a toonie. It is worth 200¢.

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Brain Stretch

Getting to Know CoinsCircle the loonies red. Circle the quarters green. Circle the dimes blue. Circle the nickels yellow. Circle the toonies orange.

How many loonies? __________ How many nickels? __________

How many dimes? __________ How many quarters? __________

How many toonies? __________

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