Count the pot of gold
Fill a little pot with real or paper pennies and let kids count them out in groups of ten. Then they draw the coins and write the total. Touching the coins first makes counting money so much easier for six-year-olds.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
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