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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1191815, member: 27832"]I would have had to walk her through: "Here's one; that's 50 cents. Here's another; what's 50 plus 50? Here's another; what's $1.00 plus 50?"  My son's fourth-grade class just finished a quarter-long project where they set up a model town, established businesses (including obtaining licenses), manufactured products, and sold them (for play money) at retail, including sales tax (with a little look-up chart, since 7% is a bit of a challenge even for most adults to compute on the fly). They had an open house where parents were invited. Each parent, when we went in, was given a shopping bag with a $1 note and two 25-cent notes (just simple squares of paper). They had to make change with 1-cent, 5-cent and 10-cent notes. It did my heart good to see that every child was counting out change more successfully than many cashiers do. I do sort of wish, though, that I could have show up with some parchment slips in denominations of 50 cents, 20 cents, 3 cents and 2 cents... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]