What does this have to do with math?
Everything if you're making "touch points" on money sticks:
Do you use touch points for counting coin values?
Each touch point is worth 5...a nickel has one, a dime has two, and a quarter has five. This has REALLY helped my students!
I made these money sticks by gluing play coins onto colored craft sticks. The colors represent differentiated levels (but my students don't know that), so I can easily keep track of each students' progress.
The money sticks are not my original idea (saw on Pinterest!), but they were a necessity after two days of hearing "pling, pling, pling" as all of the money was dropping on the floor! My students were really excited to see this the following day:
Each touch point is worth 5...a nickel has one, a dime has two, and a quarter has five. This has REALLY helped my students!
I made these money sticks by gluing play coins onto colored craft sticks. The colors represent differentiated levels (but my students don't know that), so I can easily keep track of each students' progress.
The money sticks are not my original idea (saw on Pinterest!), but they were a necessity after two days of hearing "pling, pling, pling" as all of the money was dropping on the floor! My students were really excited to see this the following day:
The touch points took me a little longer to figure out. The best marker I could find that would show up on the coins was a dry erase marker. Good, but not great. I was planning on using a hot glue gun to use sequins on top of the marker, but then I tried glitter nail polish. It worked! Be sure to number each stick and then you can add a simple recording page to use in a math work station.
Have a super Thursday! Tomorrow's Friday (finally!)!!
GREAT idea! Pinning it!
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