In preparation for the study of money, our class reviewed coin identification.  Handfuls of coins were sorted and quanties graphed in various ways.  One of the most fun ways was to create a "human graph" with students taking the role of quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies and lining up in columns.  Can you guess which coin everyone wanted to be?

We also made bar graphs and pictographs of individual student work.   We used Anthony's work to demonstrate our activities:

Students were given a handful of coins to sort
and color boxes to show the number of each coin:



This shows data in pictures.  Students also used paper
pictures of coins and glued to a grid:

Anthony's Coin Sort
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6
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2
1
	Quarters	Dimes	Nickels	Pennies

A chart was made at Create a Graph to see this
information in another way:

 
Another chart was made with Excel:

We are learning how to ask questions about the information collected in a graph.   Working together, we  created these questions:

Questions About Anthony's Graph:

1.  Which coin had the greatest number?

2.  How many more pennies are there than dimes?

3.  Which 2 coin groups added together have the same number as the pennies?

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