Technology Lesson Idea!

My first graders are currently working on becoming familiar with coins and adding them. I found an incredible website that would provides “emanipulatives,” including emanipulative coins and dollars. Students can drop coins into different groups, including two columns, part-part-whole, and 4 boxes. They can also click on a button that calculates the amount the boxes of coins are worth. This allows them to compare values of groups of coins, as well as gives them practice to become more familiar with coins. In my classroom, we don’t have computers available to students for individual practice, but we do have projectors that can be connected to laptops—this would be a great group activity as the teacher selects coins according to the students’ desires, and then questions them to predict, for example, how much each part of a part-part-whole problem is worth before revealing the answer, or to get students to try and find out which coins can be combined to create another value of coins. This would be extremely helpful for students who need extra practice with the coins. Here is the website! It includes other great emanipulatives! Enjoy!http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_k.html