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Tips on How to Teach Your Kids How to Count Money

Posted on the 09 February 2023 by Abylovinu @abylovinu

Tips on how to teach your kids how to count money


1. Master the basic counting
2. Teach your kid/s to skip counting
3. Introduce the coins and money bills

Once your little one has mastered counting 1-100, it will be easy for her to identify numbers.


5. Let them play the Money games

Skip counting will help your kids to know the denomination of the money easily. 5s, 10s and 20s will be the best starting numbers. Keep on practicing until they have memorized the numbers.

Tips on how to teach your kids how to count money

It will help them classify the different coins and money bills. You can help them by showing the real money or buy some play money to let them experience holding and the know the value of each piece.

Tips on how to teach your kids how to count money

Print some worksheet to let you know the kid's knowledge, if they have grasped all the money lessons that you are teaching her. It is a better way to evaluate your kid/s understanding too and know where to focus.

Tips on how to teach your kids how to count money

Upon searching the internet, I have also found some money games that will help your kids apply the learnings.


Here are the games that we have tried:

Cash back - this is a game the players will give change to the customers with the use of bills and coins. It has 3 difficulties of the game: easy, medium or hard).


Grocery Cashier - it is game where the players will act as a cashier and will add all the grocery items, subtracting the payment and giving back the change. It also gave a time limit so we need to act fast to able to earn points.


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