Make it to the Ice Cream Shoppe Coin Counting Game

Make it to The Ice Cream Shoppe

A coin counting game with a deliciously sweet ending!

Make it to the Ice Cream Shoppe with this engaging coin-counting game! Download the printable PDF designed for 11x17 paper. Perfect for teaching learners to read coin amounts, identify coins, and make coin amounts with the least possible coins. Fun, educational, and minimal prep!

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PRINT ON 11x17 paper

This engaging coin counting game features sweet treats to challenge learners to:

• Read coin amounts (all amounts are in cents)

• Identify coins (Q, D, N, & P)

• Make coin amounts with the least possible coins

• Sort & count coins in their Coin Holder at the end of the game

• Purchase items and deduct amount from their total

Players roll the dice, move forward, and show the coins needed to make that amount, striving to use the least amount of coins possible.   

Once players make it to the Ice Cream Shoppe, they total their coins and see how many items they can buy!

What’s Included in this PDF download:

• NEW!!!! 3 Game Boards - 2 with larger spacing and less distance to travel, and 1 with small spacing and further to travel

• Game Instructions

• Bicycle Tokens

• Coin Holders

• Printing Instructions and how to use the game

What is NOT Included:

• One six-sided die or spinner

• Coins to play the game with/count

Rules of Play:

Each player selects a token and places it on START. Player 1 rolls the die and moves to that square. The amount is read aloud, then made using the least amount of coins. 

If the amount was made correctly, Player 1 stays on that square and those coins are kept in player 1’s coin holder. If incorrect, go back to the last spot the player was on.

Making it to The Ice Cream Shoppe:

• Park the bicycle by the Park Bikes Here sign.

• Sort, add, and find the total in your Coin Holder

• Decide which treats to buy.

All players enjoy their earned yummy treats!

Standards:

MIMath.Content.2.NBT.B.7

Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

MIMath.Content.2.NBT.A.3

Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

MIMath.Content.2.NBT.B.5

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

MIMath.Content.1.NBT.A.1

Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

MIMath.Content.1.NBT.B.2

Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:

MIMath.Content.1.NBT.C.4

Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

MIMath.Content.2.NBT.A.3

Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

MIMath.Content.2.NBT.B.5

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

MIMath.Content.2.NBT.B.7

Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

MIMath.Content.3.NBT.A.2

Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

I hope your students enjoy playing this sweet game of getting to The Ice Cream Shoppe as much as my students and I do!

Mrs. M. @ WINR

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