Enter the total number of rolls for each type of U. Enter your quantities in the corresponding text boxes to the right of each roll description blue link. As an alternative, you can simply click on the coin roll's picture, or its link, to increase the value in its text box by 1. The calculator will automatically update the Total Metal Value in red , whenever a change is made to the number of rolls.
To calculate a partial roll of coins, enter a decimal value in the appropriate text box. For example, a value of 1. Do take into account the number of coins in a particular coin roll.
A value of 1. The Total Metal Value is tallied based on the U. Dollar amount displayed in the Copper , Manganese , Nickel , and Zinc price text boxes. You could also use one of the other currencies available in the drop-down menu located underneath the prices. The copper, nickel and zinc values are derived from the price per pound of those metals, while the manganese value is figured at the price per kilogram. The default price is updated frequently during normal trading hours.
Any of the Base Metal Prices can be altered to values of your choice. If your coins are worn from circulation, they will not consist of as much metal. There is an option to fill in a percentage of that wear in the "Amount of Wear" text box.
A number greater than the default of 0 zero , will reduce the total metal value and total metal weight results proportionally. Resultant values will be rounded to two or more decimal places depending on length. The copper cent weighs 3. The zinc cent weighs 2. In no time he was counting by fives, tens and even by twenty-fives. Both of my boys love counting coins, but their passion for money ignited the moment we began searching for loose change.
We now look for coins wherever we go out. We find them on the ground, in Coinstar machines and in the coin returns of vending machines and arcade games. When we go to the supermarket, drugstore, or a big box store my son walks slowly down each aisle looking for spare change.
If you see a cash register you are likely to find coins. The ground around Walmart and Home Depot check out lines are particularly plush with spare change. Customers often forget to pick up coins, so the coin returns at self-checkout machines are a great place to look too.
Do dirty coins gross you out? On most outings my boys find at least a coin or two. When they find a penny they even sing the penny song. These days they return home, divide their findings among the piggy banks and begin counting. Then they go wash their hands. Around the age of two or three my boys and I began playing a grocery store game. My kids are now four and eight, but they both still enjoy this one. To begin we pull a bag of pretend food off the shelf and place the contents all over the couches and chairs in the living room.
You could simply draw pictures of a few basic food products. After we take everything out we place a small hand printed price beside each item. Then we create a shopping list of items we need. My children act as the cashiers and I pretend to be their favorite customer. I come into the store with my list and they ring up the items I want to buy. In the beginning I provide them with exact change and ask them to count it.
As they get older I give them extra money and ask them to give me the change. We also create paper coupons. This simple game has helped my children learn the basics of business and finance from right inside our living room. From an early age my children began to understand that we use money to pay for the things we want and need. It may be hard to conceptualize numbers, but playing with money helped my children understand that four quarters, ten dimes, twenty nickels and one hundred pennies all equal the same value.
Money lends itself nicely to these types of computations. How many pennies does it take to make fifty cents? How many nickels? List the number of ways we can break down thirty cents. How many different sets of coins can we use to provide the same value? Sometimes we pay without using a particular coin. In this modern age children rarely see their parents using real money to pay their bills. Instead they see their parents walk into a grocery store, swipe a plastic card and walk away with a bag full of food.
It looks like magic to those young, watchful eyes. Counting coins returns us to a time when cash changed hands. A time when employees cashed their paychecks on a Friday evening and went shopping with a wad of dough on Saturday morning.
With the invention of direct deposit, online banking and credit cards financial transactions now remain hidden from them. Counting coins at an early age helped me understand the value of money. Some say physical money may disappear from our world, but I sure hope not. When we count coins together we can talk about how we wish to spend our money, save it or give it away to those in need.
These early discussions can lead to larger financial discussions. They are the springboard for discussing the infinite possibilities that come from earning and saving. They also provide an incredible framework for talking about our values, hopes and dreams. I wanted to do coin rolling with JB years ago! And just last week they stuck a glow stick in their mouth and crunched on it. I was about 9 and that deeply bothered me.
My youngest loved to stick things into his mouth when he was very young, all of the balls in the ball popper were smashed as he shoved them between his lips, but after awhile he outgrew it.
So I guess I lucked out in that department. I feel like a good teacher would have helped you get access to more books. Post dating checks is an awful feeling. I make up games to explain money to my kids too. I thought for a minute and pulled out a glass bowl. Oldest kid got to be the bank holding the bowl the I got was the store owner and youngest was the customer.
Gave youngest child Monopoly money and he made a deposit then wrote checks. I loved watching the light come on when he got it. When it comes to money I try really hard to talk to them about the reality of personal finance.
Thanks for sharing your story. My children were never interested in workbooks about money either. They would look at a problem or two and then skip ahead to something more interesting, but put a few coins in their hands and they can solve all sorts of complex mathematical problems with them.
I can understand that. Especially if they get to keep some of it after they are finished counting it! My dad also had a spare change container for spare change! I might just adopt this idea with my own children. I never thought about dividing up the coins by type.
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