Ask students to complete Questions 1–3 on the
Counting Coins page while you distribute the bags
of pennies to partners for Question 4. This question
asks students to find the total number of pennies.
Display the small bag of 40 pennies you prepared
and counted earlier to help students estimate the pennies
in their bag.
Display the Math Practices page from the Reference
section of the Student Activity Book. Focus students’
attention on Math Practices Expectation 2: Find a
strategy.
- What tools can you use to count the pennies? (ten
frames, drawings, groups or piles, nickels)
- What strategies? (skip count and count on, count
all)
- Are some strategies better? (Some are better
because they are faster and easier to check.)
Remind students to use the available tools: ten
frames, drawings, or nickels. There are ten frames
on the back of the page.
When students have completed counting the pennies
and writing or making a picture of their strategy, ask
them to share strategies for counting their collection
of pennies. For example, ask a student who used
ten frames to organize his or her work to explain that
method to the class. Then ask another student who
used a different method to check the first student’s
strategy using his or her method to see if they arrive
at the same solution.
Use the Sample Dialog and prompts similar to the following:
- Explain how Linda counted her pennies. (Possible
response: She put them in ten frames. Then she
counted by fives, then the extras.)
- Explain how Jerome counted his pennies.
(Possible response: He put them in piles of ten and
counted by ten. He then counted the pile of
three.)
- How are their strategies alike? (Possible
responses: They both got the same count. They
both made groups to skip count.)
- How are their strategies different? (Possible
responses: Linda counted by fives and she used
ten frames. Jerome counted by tens and he used
piles.)
- Which strategy would you use? Why? (Possible
responses: I’d use the ten frames, because they
help me not get confused; Counting by tens goes
faster; I can count by fives better, so I would do it
Linda’s way.)
Use the Counting Coins pages in the Student Activity Book
and the corresponding Feedback Box
Master to assess
students’ abilities to group and count objects by fives [E1];
skip count by fives and count on to find the value of a set of
coins [E2]; read and write numbers to 50 [E3]; represent
quantities with pennies, coins, ten frames, and symbols [E4, E5]; and find a strategy [MPE2].
