Count the gold
Fill a little pot with pennies and have kids count them by ones, then group them into tens. "How much gold did the leprechaun leave?" Real coins make counting and money skills hands-on.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
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