Lesson · Kindergarten · Mathematics
Coins: Size, Colour and Pictures
- Kindergarten
- Mathematics
- 1 min 9 s
- British Columbia
- BCK-MA-20
Five coins (dime, nickel, quarter, loonie and toonie), drawn to scale with their real pictures, are met one at a time and lined up from smallest to biggest, then compared by size and by colour (silver, gold, or both). A mystery coin is then solved clue by clue: it is silver, the same size as the dime and has a ship on it, so it is a dime, and the video ends on the recap that size, colour and pictures help us tell coins apart.
Concept: Coins: telling them apart by size, colour and pictures
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
Let's look closely at some coins. How can we tell them apart?
This coin is called a dime. It has a ship on it.
Transcript
What the lesson says
Let's look closely at some coins. How can we tell them apart?
This coin is called a dime. It has a ship on it.
This coin is called a nickel. It has a beaver on it.
This coin is called a quarter. It has a caribou on it.
This coin is called a loonie. It has a bird called a loon.
This coin is called a toonie. It has a polar bear on it.
Look at the size of each coin. The dime is smallest, the toonie is biggest.
Now let's look at their colours. The dime, nickel and quarter are silver.
The loonie is gold all over. The toonie is silver and gold.
Which coin could this mystery coin be?
It is all silver, not like the loonie or toonie.
It is just the same size as the dime.
It has a ship, so it is a dime!
Size, colour and pictures help us tell coins apart.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Kindergarten
Mathematics, Financial literacy: financial literacy: attributes of coins, and financial role-playBCK-MA-20
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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