Can someone please tell me how to help my first grade grandson solve this first grade problem: Mia wants to buy some toy rings. She has 1 nickel and 1 penny. How many rings can she buy at 2 cents a ring? We know she can buy three rings, but how can the problem be solved without using division? Thanks so much for any assistanve given!
Can someone please tell me how to help my first grade grandson solve this first grade problem: Mia wants to buy some toy rings. She has 1 nickel and 1 penny. How many rings can she buy at 2 cents a ring? We know she can buy three rings, but how can the problem be solved without using division? Thanks so much for any assistanve given!
Jstrand09 writes: 1 nickel= 5 cents, 1 penny= 1 cent. 5 cents plus 1 cent= 6 cents. I think the easiest way is to just add up 2 cents until you reach 6 cents which we know is 3 but a first grader will probably have to count by 2s.
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SIRJUAN1 writes: I would suggest that you have himto draw 3 or more rings on a piece of paper. Write a 2 cents in the middle of each ring picture. Ask him to count how many rings add up to 6 cents. Then if you had your child to draw more than 3 rings you can go farther and ask how many if he had 8 cents and so on. I hope this helps you.
