one FEET, INCHES, AND YARDS 1. Four inches and 3 inches are how many inches? 2. How many are 5 inches and 4 inches? 3. Five inches and 7 inches are 37 inches, or just 4. 2 feet and 1 foot are how many feet? What else is this called? 9. How much less than a foot is 10 inches? 15. Draw lines on the blackboard showing the size of the page of a book 5 inches wide and 8 inches long. 38 A CENT, A NICKEL, AND A DIME NOTE. Either real or toy money should be actually handled by the pupils. 1. James has 3 cents and John has 8 cents. How many cents have both? 2. If you spend 6 cents for a pencil and 10 cents for a book, how much do you spend in all? 3. If you buy a 3-cent pencil and give the clerk a dime, how much change will he give you? 5. If I buy a 2-cent pencil and a 5-cent tablet, how much change shall I get back from a dime? 6. How much change shall I get back if I buy 2 oranges at 4 cents each and give the clerk a dime? 7. How many nickels are 3 dimes worth? 8. I have 20 cents and spend a dime. How much have I left? How many nickels is it worth? 9. Mary had two dimes and spent a nickel. How much had she left? 10. After school Harry earned a dime and a nickel. How many cents was that? 11. Lucy bought a pencil for 2 cents and a tablet for 5 cents. How much change will she receive from a dime? 1. These children are in a store. They have "makebelieve" money. The teacher is storekeeper. Ruth has just bought an eraser for 3 cents. She gave the storekeeper a nickel. What change should she receive? 2. Henry bought a book for 7 cents. He gave the storekeeper a dime. What change should he receive? 3. Mary bought a pencil for 5 cents and some colored crayon for 8 cents. She gave the storekeeper a dime and a nickel. What change should she receive? 4. Robert bought a paper-weight for 8 cents and gave the storekeeper the exact change. What pieces of money did he give her? NOTE. - This game has proved to be a very valuable and very interesting exercise. After pupils have learned to buy and make change with teacher as storekeeper, let one or more pupils be the storekeeper and the rest buy of them. If real or toy money is not at hand, let the pupils make from cardboard cents, nickels, and dimes. The smallest coin that we use is the cent. When we write dollars and cents together, we put a period called a decimal point between them. Thus: $3.25 is read 3 dollars and 25 cents. 1. Read: $1.25; $1.50; $2.75; $3.24; $4.50; $ 6.95; $0.75; $0.68. 2. We may write 5 cents another way, it is $0.05. Ten cents may be written 10 or $0.10. (The zero shows that there are no dollars.) Write 7 cents in two ways; write 15 cents in two ways. 3. $1.05 is read 1 dollar and 5 cents. Read $ 3.08; $5.80; $0.75; $0.60; $0.06; $3.60; $3.06. 4. 2 nickels equal how many cents? 5. 15 cents equal how many nickels? 6. Alice gave the clerk 2 dimes to pay for a writing tablet costing 12 cents. her? How much change did he give 7. When I give the clerk a quarter to pay for 17 cents worth of meat, how much change shall I get back? 8. If from a quarter the clerk takes pay for a writing book costing a dime and a pencil costing a nickel, how much change shall I get? 7. If a quart of milk costs 6 cents, how much will a pint cost? 8. If a pint of nuts costs 5 cents, how much will a quart cost? 9. Mary and Ruth each gathered a quart of berries. How many pints did each gather? How many pints dic both gather? 10. At 3 cents a pint, how much will a quart cost? 11. At 5 cents a pint, how much will a quart and a pint of nuts cost? NOTE. While there is a little difference between the quart used in measuring liquids and the one used in measuring nuts or berries, it need not be brought out now. |
