Break Apart Standard 2.4

Standards Assessed: 2c, 6

Identify one Standard and with your partner break it apart. Answer the questions below about the standard you have chosen.

Use money as a medium of exchange. Make change and use decimal notation and the dollar and cent symbols to represent the collection of coins and currency.

1. What do the students need to know to meet this standard?
 Students need to know what the value of each coin is.
 They need to know what a dollar sign, cent sign, and decimal point is.
 They need to know how to add and subtract.
 They need to know how to add groups of coins.
 How to count by 5’s, 10’s, 25’s

2. What patterns of reasoning must students be able to apply?
 They must be able to understand the pattern of $ dollar. cents.
 The concept of subtracting the cost of the item from the amount paid.

3. What skills do students need?
 Count groups of coins
 Make change


4. What products should they be able to create?
 Reciepts - A store complete with cashiers and customers where they could practice making change.

5. What dispositions will students need to develop to meet this standard?
 A feeling of perseverance, trying your hardest