Sorting and Counting Coins Activity

Nina finds a bag of coins and sorts them by color, placing yellow coins on the left and silver coins on the right. She counts five yellow and six silver coins. Then, she sorts them by size, with small coins on the left and big coins on the right, counting six small and five big coins. Later, Nina discovers a bag of marbles and thinks about how to categorize them.

How did Nina initially decide to sort the coins she found?

• By size

• By color

• By weight

• By value

How many yellow coins did Nina count?

• Four

• Five

• Six

• Seven

What was Nina's second method for sorting the coins?

• By color

• By size

• By material

• By shape

How many small coins did Nina count?

• Six

• Five

• Seven

• Four

What new item did Nina find that prompted her to think about sorting categories?

• A bag of beads

• A bag of shells

• A bag of marbles

• A bag of buttons