A few days ago
Cant count money?
Ok I am 21 yrs old and cannot count money. I graduatd high school with honors and the grades I made in other classes must have made up for my math grade. I was always a great student always listend did my homework but never got it!? When I was a kid we were always on the move. I have been to 12 different school no joke. I am thinking my problem to this is becouse every new school i went to sometimes 3 school in one grade level and each time they were on somthing different in the class. Do you suppose I missed everything scince math needs to be learned in steps? Its stoping me from getting a job b/c I wouldnt be able to count money. Its ruining my life. I have even tried to get childrens book on money counting and educating myself. Does anyone have any advice I cannt go on living without knowing this.
Top 6 Answers
A few days ago
Favorite Answer
if you know how to count you can count money. every dollar has a value. each dollars value is 100 pennies (20 nickels, 10 dimes, 4 quarters). pennies nickels dimes and quarters are change. they are only worth FRACTIONS of a dollar. there are 1, 5,10,20,50,100 dollar bills. a bill with a five on it is worth five 1 dollar bills. a bill with a 50 on it is worth fifty 1 dollar bills or 5,000 pennies. you add and subtract just like in simple math. say you are buying a pack of gum worth 25 cents, you give the cashier 1 dollar (100 pennies) minus 25 pennies (1 quarter of a dollar) is 75 pennies. you would get back 75 cents (3 quarters of a dollar). same thing with the whole dollar ammounts. 10 dollars plus 53 dollars is 63 dollars. its really simple to do. good luck
0
5 years ago
I am a parent of a teenager. When my daughter was growing up and she started to want things at the store I made her buy it herself (I gave her the money and made her interact with the cashiers). This is the only way kids learn about how to count money and such. I found with most of her friends that the parents would never let them pay (I started my daughter before she was in elementary school) for fear of not getting the right change. Problem is, these kids never learn – they are so nervous dealing with the cashier that they cannot think enough to count out money. It is really sad b/c like you said so many kids cannot count!!
0
A few days ago
Just start with counting other things and then bring money into it.
i suspect its decimals that are messing you up
So start without the decimal. Count some coins and you will always get a one or two digit number. 10 cents, 50 cents. Then you might have a 99 cents and one more cent gives you 100 cents.
That is the same as 1 dollar, or 1.00. 1.00 = 1 its the same.
Then add a cent and it takes you to 1.01 dollars.
Add another ten cents and you go up to 1.11 dollars.
Add another ten cents and you get 1.21 dollars.
Add another cent and you get 1.22 dollars
Add another dollar and you get 2.22 dollars.
I hope this is at all helpful and not patronising.
0
A few days ago
Start out where the pennies are….round up to the 5 or 10 then the quarter up to the dollar then to the next 5 or 10.For example if you had a number of $5.47 and they gave you a twenty….go…3 cents to 50 then 2 quarters makes 6 dollars…4 dollars makes it 10 and ten dollars is twenty.But let’s say they gave you $20.50 so you would the cents first so 3 pennies makes it 50 cents so then you give change for $5 for a $20 bill.
If you stick with rounding up to the nearest 5/10 mark then to the nearest quarter to dollar you should start to learn.Use your family to help you by giving you different amounts of money figures and dollar bills for you to practice with.
0
A few days ago
If you know how to do simple math, you should be able to count money. All you have to know is the value of each coin, then you have to add them up in your head… Practice a bit at home… just get a whole bunch of coins… throw them on the floor and try to add them up. If you can’t do so, you could always use credit cards =P
0
A few days ago
heres a website that can help you
http://www.superkidz.com/money.html
0
- Academic Writing
- Accounting
- Anthropology
- Article
- Blog
- Business
- Career
- Case Study
- Critical Thinking
- Culture
- Dissertation
- Education
- Education Questions
- Essay Tips
- Essay Writing
- Finance
- Free Essay Samples
- Free Essay Templates
- Free Essay Topics
- Health
- History
- Human Resources
- Law
- Literature
- Management
- Marketing
- Nursing
- other
- Politics
- Problem Solving
- Psychology
- Report
- Research Paper
- Review Writing
- Social Issues
- Speech Writing
- Term Paper
- Thesis Writing
- Writing Styles