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Tips on how to teach your kids how to count money

Counting is one of the basic learnings we should put in our hearts and will always be used until the day we die. This skill is also one of the hardest lessons we will learn when we are kids. Do you agree? Especially, if we have introduced to our kids the value of money. Here are some tips on how to teach your kids how to count money:

1. Master the basic counting

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

2. Teach your kid/s to skip counting

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.

3. Introduce the coins and money bills

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.

4. Keep on practicing

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.

5. Let them play the Money games

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.

Treze Coins – this is the easiest game out of the three that we have tried. The game will tell you how much will be the amount to input in the machine. Then once correct, you will earn your gumballs. It will help your kids to familiarize with coins.

I hope these tips will able to help you and your little one. Comment down below, if you have suggestions too.

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Lately, my little girl started to like to play games in our gadgets. She loves and enjoys playing. Funny thing is sometimes she pretend to play even she is just watching a video of a game. My poor little girl she swipes up and down and thinks, she is really the one playing it. How cute! Haha Good thing is I found a website with thousands of free games. It can be played using the browser. Amazing! And take note, all of the games are free from different categories like arcade, sports, educational, retro pixel, simulation games and many more. Unlike the games on mobile app in IOS or Android, most of the time the first 2 or 3 levels are free then, we need full version to enjoy the other levels of the games. How sad was that, right? Especially to educational games, they are asking for money for the full version. I would like to introduce to you, the website I have discovered. It is Plays.org.

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Neon invader - it is inspired of the Space Invaders

Colorush - it is a puzzle game, the drop of water should go to the circle (is it a sink? or jar?)

And lastly, one of the classic games ever. The inspired tetris game but on neon, it is the Tetra Blocks.

While for my little girl, here is her list of top 3 faves:

Virtual Xylophone - she loves instruments

Dora's Wonderful Wonderful Wardrobe Dress up - she loves to dress up and she enjoyed this one.

Dress Night - other dressing up game, I always participate in dressing up the model.

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