PENNY GRAB


Materials:
  • 10 pennies for each partnership
  • a slate or scratch paper for each player
Number of Players:

Two (2) or more

Directions:

Partners combine their pennies.  Each grabs a handful and then counts and records the amount using both cents- and dollar-and-cents notation.  For example, 13 pennies would be recorded as both 13¢ and $0.13.

Partners compare their amounts, and then figure out and record how many more or less (the difference).  They then combine the amounts (counts) and record how many in all (the sum).  Partners repeat the penny grabs several times.