Sunday 15 January 2012

Counting Money in Grade III

Hello kids! How are you all today? Our today’s free online math tutoring session is going to be very interesting. Today we will learn Counting Money and Counting Numbers. A Grade III student always wants to know what his father and mother are doing with the currency. How they add up different kinds of them. What is the basic of counting it? Here we will learn how to count pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, cents and dollars. It is very important for a grade III student to recognize them and know the value of their money. 1 penny, 1 cent are count by one.
That is we will count it as 1 penny, 2 penny, 3 penny and so on and same for cent.

1 nickel = 5 cents.
That is while adding (also play adding and subtracting integers worksheets) we count them as 5 cents (1 nickel), 10 cents(2 nickels), 15 cents(3 nickels) and so on.   
            5 pennies = 1 nickel
            1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 (cents) = 5 cents = 1 nickel

1 dime = 10 cents and are counted by 10 to count them. That is we will count it as  10 cents(1 dime), 20 cents(2 dimes), 30 cents(3 dimes) and so on.
            10 pennies = 1 dime
                        And
            2 nickels = 1 dime

            5 cents + 5 cents = 10 cents = 1 dime
            1 nickel + 1 nickel = 1 dime

1 quarter = 25 cents and is counted by 5 to count them. That is we will count it as 25 cents, 50 cents, 75 cents and so on.
            25 pennies = 1 quarter
            5 nickel = 1 quarter
            2 dimes + 1 nickel = 1 quarter


1 dollar = 100 cents and is counted by 100 to count them. That is we will count it as 100cents, 200 cents, 300 cents and so on.
            100 pennies = 1 dollar
            20 nickels = 1 dollar
            10 dimes = 1 dollar
Dollar is represented as $.

Now we will look at some examples and get familiar with adding up money.
Example 1: how will you write 12 cents in dimes and pennies?
Solution: 1 dime and 2 pennies

Example 2: How many dimes are there in 10 cents?
Solution: 1 dime = 10 cents.

Example 3: how many penny and nickel you will need to count 6 cents?
Solution: 1 nickel + 1 cent = 6 cents.

Example 4: how many quarters are there in $1 or 1 dollar?
Solution: 4 quarter = 1 dollar


Now after discussing counting money let’s move on to Counting numbers. Before start learning counting we should know what are whole numbers. Whole numbers start with 0. That is whole numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on. Counting numbers are whole numbers but without zero. That is counting numbers are starts from 1.
The counting numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on.
Counting numbers includes positive whole numbers and also called natural numbers. The next number in counting numbers is generated by adding 1 to previous number.

We can also write numbers in words:
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
1       2        3       4      5      6       7        8         9     10

Now just adding ten(10) in each next series can easily be generated.
1+10 =11, 2+10=12, 3+10=13 and so on
Eleven,         twelve,     thirteen.

Now we have discussed both how to count number and how to count money. Both are related with one another. Do you know how?
If we know counting numbers we can easily add up money and quickly move to the result.

In upcoming posts we will discuss about Compose and Decompose Numbers in Grade III and Mean. Visit our website for information on CBSE psychology question paper 2010

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