In this activity, students investigate the value of the digits in $8,205.50 and determine the number of thousands, hundreds, tens, ones and even the number of dimes and pennies. The concept is then extended to additional situations. They learn where to place a decimal when writing amounts of money and to perform addition and subtraction operations with money.

Concepts

hundreds, ones, place value, tens, thousands

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Additional Tags

basic arithmetic skills, operations with money, putting things in place, ti, texas instruments, decimal

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

1.NBT.C.4 3.NBT.A.3 2.NBT.B.7 2.MD.C.8 2.NBT.B.6 1.NBT.C.5