Project #11

3 responses Summary
How many pennies are in a quarter?
5 0 0%
10 0 0%
20 0 0%
25 3 100%
If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how much money do you have?
13 cents 1 33%
23 cents 2 67%
5 cents 0 0%
10 cents 0 0%
Sarah has 30 cents. What types of coins mights she have?
Three dimes 3 100%
Three pennies 0 0%
One quarter and five pennies 3 100%
Four nickles 0 0%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
Johnny needs 75 cents to buy a drink. What type of coins will give him 75 cents?
Seven dimes and one nickel 3 100%
Three quarters 3 100%
Five nickels and three pennies 0 0%
Two quarters and three nickels 0 0%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
Katie has 2 quarters, 3 dimes, and 1 nickel.
50 cents 0 0%
71 cents 1 33%
81 cents 1 33%
85 cents 1 33%
How many nickels are in a quarter?
5 3 100%
2 0 0%
6 0 0%
10 0 0%
Jenny has 48 cents in her pocket. What types of coins may she have?
Four nickels and eight pennies 0 0%
One quarter, two dimes, and three pennies 2 67%
Four dimes and eight pennies 3 100%
Two quarters, one nickel, three pennies 0 0%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
If your teacher gives you 2 quarters, 3 dimes, and 6 pennies how much money will you have?
35 cents 0 0%
90 cents 0 0%
11 cents 0 0%
86 cents 2 67%
Sarah found 16 pennies and 3 dimes on the floor. How much money does she have?
46 cents 2 67%
16 cents 0 0%
30 cents 0 0%
19 cents 0 0%
After this lesson on coins, how hard do you think it is to count change?
Not hard at all
Very hard
1 -
Not hard at all
3 100%
2 0 0%
3 0 0%
4 0 0%
5 -
Very hard
0 0%

I received three responses to the form that I submitted on my "Counting Money" lesson. This lesson was directed towards 1st graders so my partner and I decided to simplify it by only working with coins and not dollar bills. In our lesson we presented a variety of problems to have the children think about money in different applicable ways. On our form we tried to use the same types of problems so that it would be easier for them to answer.
I was a little surprised with the results of my form. Some of the answers were not correct and I felt like this was not a difficult lesson. I think this could be from one of two problems. The first problem may be the way our problems were worded. I tried to make the answers to the problems a little tricky so that the students would have to take time to think about them. Maybe I made them too tricky? I think my second problem is that this survey was given to college students who are use to counting money being second nature and maybe they did not take the time to read instructions and consider each answer. Either way, I think if I make a real lesson like this I will not make the answers quite so tricky.