Summary
Math Antics shows how to count money and write amounts in dollars and cents. A clear, animated 14-minute lesson you can drop straight into a grades 2-4 math block -- pause-friendly, with worked examples on screen.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
A few questions to talk through after watching “Dollars and Cents.”
- How many cents are in a dollar?
- How does the decimal point separate dollars from cents?
- How do you write 3 dollars and 5 cents?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: dollar, cent, coin, decimal point, value.
Try it: Add up a handful of coins and write the total in dollars and cents.