We’ve been working with Canadian coins at school, so here is some work you can look into trying to recreate at home!
First, we need to review what coins Canada has!!
We have a loonie (which is worth one dollar – which is the same as 100 cents), a toonie (which is worth two dollars, or 200 cents), a quarter (which is worth 25 cents), a dime (which is worth 10 cents), a nickel (which is worth 5 cents), and the penny (which is worth one cent).
Now, you won’t be able to find many pennies around, because Canada doesn’t use pennies anymore when we pay with coins for things. But we still use them when we are paying for things by credit or debit cards, and we count prices with pennies and cents, so we still need to know what they look like!
Looking at our Canadian coins, what do you notice about them? What images are on our coins? Why do you think those images were chosen? Do you recognize any of them?
Working with pennies is like counting by 1s. If you have one penny, you have 1 cent. If you have two pennies, you have 2 cents. If you have three pennies you have???? Yep, 3 cents!!
Working with nickels is like counting by 5s! If you have one nickel, you have 5 cents. If you have two nickels, you have 10 cents. If you have three nickels, you have 15 cents. 5, 10, 15…so if you had four nickels, how many cents would you have? 5, 10, 15…yep, 20 cents!!
Working with dimes is like counting by 10s! If you have one dime, you have 10 cents. If you have two dimes, you have 20 cents. If you have three dimes, you have 30 cents. If you have four dimes, you have 40 cents. If you have five dimes…? 10, 20, 30, 40…..50!! If you have five dimes, you have 50 cents!!
See if you can find some coins, and practice counting them with an adult. How many nickels do you have? How many dimes? How many cents do you have? Can you practice counting by 5s and 10s with coins, by moving them when you count how many cents they are worth from one pile to another? Try recording your total number of coins with your counting of how many cents!
Here are some worksheet booklets from the internet that you can use! If you can’t print them, you can always draw your own copy of them, or use blank paper and real coins if you have any!
Here is a great video to watch about our Canadian coins to help memorize information!
And here is a short video about Canadian coins! What new information did you learn from watching these videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTG0HK6ovg