Dollar in Trade Game


This is a great way to develop the concept of place value and borrowing/carrying (or "regrouping" as it is now called). Kids who are just ready to grasp these concepts find this a surprisingly fun activity.

This can be played as a solitaire game or as a race between two people in which the person who earns the dollar first is the winner.

Start with a dollar bill, 12 dimes, and 12 pennies in the "bank." (If playing with more than one person, each person gets their own "bank.")
Player one rolls two dice and "earns" pennies corresponding to the total he/she rolls.
Play continues in this way (alternating turns if playing with another person).
Pretty quickly there won't be anymore pennies in the bank because the players will have earned them. What can they do? Exchange 10 pennies for a dime so that they can continue to earn pennies.

Keep rolling and earning and exchanging until someone has 10 dimes and realizes they can be exchanged for the dollar. That ends the game.


Posted: Tue - October 14, 2003 at 02:21 AM      

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