Money Matching and Counting

I totally forgot about this money activity until this past week!  I made it a long time ago for a student who had a money matching IEP goal (and was very motivated by food!).  I was trying to pair the concept of using money to buy food.  I found all the pictures (of money and foods) on google images.  Then I laminated the cards and put them on a binder ring.  I used real money for matching (which I put velcro on).  By the way, I have definitely found some money with velcro in my purse before and almost used it to pay at the store (whoops!)

This week, I realized I could use this activity for a variety of leveled learners!!  For my lowest students, we worked on matching.  The next level up worked on labeling coins by name or value (or both!) as they matched them to the cards.  The most advanced group worked on counting the combinations of coins to come up to the total written on the top.  It worked out great using the same activity for all my groups instead of trying to find something different for each one!!

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