Cash Cow

Cash Cow is my students' favorite app for the itouch at this moment. They have been steadily playing the app since the beginning of school in September. Cash Cow supports students in learning to exchange money up to a dollar. They look for coin combinations that make a nickel, dime, quarter, and a dollar. Most students start out with making a nickel with five pennies or a dime with two nickels. The game progressively gets harder so that students have to make new combinations including two dimes and a nickel, four quarters, and other combinations of up to ten coins totaling $1. What I enjoy even more than their enthusiasm for playing the game (there is always a rush to the itouches), is the transfer of skills. Students are able to add real coins together with greater fluency. I have even seen students pull out the classroom coins and look for combinations when all of the itouches are being used by other students.