At the last minute, Alannna’s swim team needs someone to manage the cash box ata craft sale. It is up to Uncle Norm to save the day, in spite of his fear of change …making change, that is. They learn more about “counting up” so they can provide customers with the correct change after Kevin talks to a bakery shop owner.

The Gist: This episode is about “counting up,” an important computational strategy in the classroom which is the basis for “making change” in the real world. In the curriculum, children are required to represent and describe the relationships between coins and bills up to $10; estimate, count, and represent (using the $ symbol) the value of a collection of coins and bills with a maximum value of $10; count forward by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, 25’s and 100’s.