For the past week or so, we have been learning about money. We have learned the values of the different coins and bills, and have been working on adding money and making sums of money using different coins. Working with money helps us to count by 1s, 5s, 10s and even 25s. It also helps build critical thinking skills, and is a valuable life skill to have. Today we played two little games on the SMARTBoard, and I promised students I would share the links so they could play at home.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/money/money-master.html
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cr.cgi
Today we discussed the two differences between French and English in writing amounts of money. In English we use a "." to separate dollar from cents, where as in French, we use a ",". Also, in English, the $ goes before the amount of money, and in French, it comes after. For example, in English we would write $5.32, but in French, we write 5,32$.
