People need to use read money to understand money. Pictures of fake money are fine if the student understands the concept. Too often the understanding is delayed because our society does not handle real money. We use checks or debit or credit cards. I have students count money and then teach them how to count money back. An example of this is when we decide how much our watch (for example) cost and pretend to buy it. I give them change and then have them buy the watch. If they have ten dollars in change and the watch is $8.55, how much money do they need to give me. When they give me ten dollars. I hand them the watch and count back to them two dimes and a quarter. This is 8.65, 8.75, 9.00 and another dollar for 10.00. I lay this out on the table and we discuss how this makes 10.00. We will use this with only a couple of items each tutoring session to avoid flustration. I also show them how they could receive back other conbinations. An example is 4 nickles and a quarter or all nickles and other changes.
I also use a handful of change and have them count it into stacks of a dollar and then count the stacks and the left over change. I let them know this is how the banks count money.
I also have several 50 cent pieces and silver dollar size pieces. I do not use the newer dollar pieces as they are too easily confused with quarters by struggling learners.
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