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Pennies are still in circulation. Nothing in teaching needs to change.
It will take a long time for pennies to leave circulation and cash transactions eventually rounded to the nearest nickel.
But digital transactions will continue to he rounded to the penny.
Either way - place value and rounding is important for students to know well.
Rounding to the nearest 5 is not very common, but I assume will become more common soon.
I had a 6th grader who needed the concept of coins to understand place value, when I got to the thousandths place I told her about the hay penny... after that point she finally got the concept. If she didn't I would have talked about the Zambezian Cent.
Whenever I'm told to, which I'm guessing won't be until our materials get updated. Even with pennies no longer being mined, there's value in teaching students about them. They're part of our (very recent) history and a good example to use to teach basic math.
Pennies are fine, it’s the rest of what government says about education thats a waste.
You get enough years in and you realize that for the past several education needs removed from govt and big ed is as bad as big pharma.
Now that's something I hadn't thought about! My opinion would be that people might as well keep talking about them and teaching them, it's not like the billions of them in circulation are going to disappear. And like a lot of things, ending the penny will probably turn out to have unanticipated consequences and they'll be making them again in a few years.
Canada went penny-free over 10 years ago and there aren't issues.
I was wondering this as well. I assume I have to teach Pennie’s until we get an updated textbook or course material that excludes them.
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Pennies are still around. You still need to say more about them.
Pennies will still be around and it's number sense. I would keep doing it. But you raise an interesting question. Wait until the curriculum doesn't have it???
Even though most people pay for items with a credit or debit card, there are still people who pay with cash. The general statewide sales tax rate in New Jersey is 6.625%. Having this sales tax we will still need to use pennies to pay for items if we use cash. Because of this we still need to teach students about pennies
It would make little sense to start with units of five instead of starting with units of one. Further, as others have noted, pennies will still be in circulation for a good time to come.
Many stores and truck stops have already stopped excepting pennies for purchases. Fir example, they charge 53 cents for ice in Arkansas and Missouri and if ypu gove them 55 cents, they dont provide change of 2 cents. Here's the reality of the penny problem in the USA.