How Much is Your Name Worth?

This week, we are participating in a mini-blitz about Money! Money is not in the math curriculum, but  I love to plan a short study of money because it is perfect practice of skip counting, understanding greater than and least and addition of multiple addends. Not to mention its real world application!

Today, after some interactive activities on the SMART board, we completed an activity called How Much is your Word Worth? Each letter on the alphabet was assigned a coin value. We each calculated the value of our first and last name. Each student then had to read their value aloud and we spent time ordering our values from lowest to greatest! It was quite challenging! Students had difficulty differentiating between values... dollars and then cents, but had better understanding when I compared the ordering to that of the dictionary. If three students have the same first letter, we look to their second and then third. With money, we first look at the dollar value. If it is the same, we looks to the cents. We will practice this again later this week.

Turns out Sienna has the "most valuable" name in the class and 

Leland has the "least valuable" name in the class. 

Hats Off to Heritage was great! Dress like a rockstar tomorrow! 

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~Ms. Burland 

($4.65)