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1 Contents Note to Parents and Teachers Let's Get to Know the Teaching Cash Register 4 Here's a Coin, There's a Coin! 6 A Spill of Sorts 7 How Much Is It Worth? 8 Combining Coin Values 9 A Flowery Bunch of Coins 10 Training Day 12 What's the Value? 14 Scan, Scan, Away! 15 It's a Weighty Matter 16 A Nickel in a Pickle 18 Coins in the Fountain 19 What's the Decimal Point? 20 Adding It All Up 22 Coupon Clippers 2 Do You Have Enough? 24 Making Change 25 Taking Inventory 26 Cool Savings: Two-for-One Ice Cream! 27 That's a Sale! Three-for-One Pizzas! 28 Let's Review 29 Answer Key 1

2 Note to Parents and Teachers Dear Parents and Teachers, What could be more worthwhile than immersing children in learning... while they are having fun? This Teaching Cash Register Activity Book offers fun and learning, all in one. When used with the Teaching Cash Register- LER 2690, learning abounds with real-life math and hands-on activities. Almost every child has had the opportunity to visit the grocery store with an adult. The experience itself has excitement at every turn: choosing what to buy, placing items in the basket, waiting for check-out, meeting the cashier, and paying for all the goodies! The early math skills covered in this book reflect that life experience, and include the skills involved in the process. Throughout this book your child will practice coin value recognition (matching coins to their amount), addition and subtraction of coins, regrouping of coins for different values, making purchases and giving change (basic multiplication and division concepts), weight recognition (using thinking skills to compare the weight of objects), and other early money concepts including decimal points, dollars and cents, and writing monetary amounts. To begin, introduce the Teaching Cash Register, having coins and dollars available for play. Pages 4 and 5 highlight the buttons on the cash register, so you can familiarize yourself and your child with its functions. Talk a bit about coins. Give your child a group of coins, containing one of each value. Ask questions such as, "What is different about the coins?" (size, color, value). Do the same with dollar bills. Talk about different coins or bills, and how we can use them to pay for items of various prices. For pretend-and-play fun, give your child the opportunity for free exploration with the cash register. Collect some food objects or other items from around the house. Press the buttons, insert coins, scan an item, slide a credit card, and play with the pretend scale. Then introduce the activities that begin on page 6. There is an icon reminder on select pages, showing which buttons on the cash register are needed to complete the activity. There is a review at the end of the book, and an answer key on page 1 for your convenience. As children grow, their curiosity for learning grows. The child-friendly activities in this book were written with kids in mind, and can be used with or without the Teaching Cash Register. The more you are involved in the playing, the more fun the learning will be! Now, let's go to the store!

3 Combining Coin Values 1 2 Sally wants to buy a lollipop for 5. She has 5 pennies. How much is five pennies worth? Count each penny as "one cent" to find out if Sally can buy the lollipop. Count by ones and place the correct number of coins in each box below to equal the amount shown on the price tag Count by fives and place the correct number of coins in each box below to equal the amount shown on the price tag Note: When using the Teaching Cash Register, remember to clear out the coin bank before starting the next problem. 9

4 What s the Decimal Point? Money is written as numbers with special symbols. There is a symbol for dollars ($), and a symbol for cents ( ). However, there is another way to write money, when you want to combine dollars with cents. The cents sign is not used, but the dollar sign is. The dollars and cents are separated by a dot called a decimal point. The numbers to the left of the decimal point are the dollars, and the numbers to the right of the decimal point are the cents. When we read money, we say "and" for the decimal point. Three dollars and 50 cents is written $.50. Read the amounts below. Then write the amounts using a decimal point. 1 Four dollars and fifteen cents 2 Ten dollars and twenty cents Three dollars and twenty-five cents 4 Six dollars and thirty cents 5 Eight dollars and thirty-five cents 20 Play toy store with a friend. Your friend is the customer and you are the cashier. Ring up the purchases your friend makes from the toys found around your house. Trade places and play again.

5 Adding It All Up Nick is in charge of home deliveries from the grocery store. He needs to double-check that his orders are added correctly. Add the following amounts. Use your Teaching Cash Register or pencil and paper to help you find the s. Don t forget to hit Enter before ing the problem! Every order gets a $2.00 delivery charge added to it. Can you help Nick his orders? 1 2 $.2 $4.56 $ $4.55 $ $4.50 $1.2 $ $8.19 $. $2.07 $ Note: Use Teaching Cash Register keypad, addition sign, Enter, and /Total with this activity. Don t forget to hit Enter before ing the problem!

6 Cool Savings... Two-for-One Ice Cream Merkety's Market is having a big sale in the freezer aisle! Customers can buy two gallons of ice cream for the price of one gallon of ice cream. Use your Teaching Cash Register or a pencil and paper to help you find the sale price of the ice cream. EXAMPLE: If a gallon of rocky road ice cream is normally priced at $5.24, what is the sale price for each gallon when you buy 2? $5.24 divided by 2 $2.62 (the sale price of each gallon) Try these on your own. Mint chocolate chip ice cream usually sells for $4.56 a gallon. 1 What is the sale price for one gallon if you buy 2 gallons? $4.56 divided by 2, the sale price for each gallon A gallon of Double Fudge Ripple is $.28. How much would each gallon cost if you buy 2 during the sale? $.28 divided by 2, the sale price for each gallon. A gallon of Rainbow Sherbet is normally priced at $4.44. How much will you pay for a gallon if you buy two gallons during the sale? $4.44 divided by 2, the sale price for each gallon. Caramel Nut Crunch is a favorite, priced at $.46 a gallon. What will the sale price be for one gallon if you buy 2 gallons? $.46 divided by 2, the sale price for each gallon. Everyone loves Ding Dong Donuts ice cream. It only costs $2.4 a gallon! What is the sale price for one gallon this week? $2.4 divided by 2, the sale price for each gallon. Note: Use your keypad, the division sign, the /Total, and the Enter button to help with this activity. 27

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