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Teach money skills through counting coins, shopping tasks and budgeting activities. Choose early money practice or financial decisions for older learners.
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Students mark bingo card squares as vocabulary terms (e.g., Allowance, Bank, Budget, Cash, Coin, Coupon, Credit Card, Debit Card, Deposit, Dollar Bill, Donate, Earn, Financial Goal, Income, Invest, Money, Needs, Piggy Bank, Price Tag, Receipt, Save, Savings, Cash Register, Shopping Cart, Spend, Wallet, Wants, Withdraw) are called out…
Students identify coins and make change, calculate percentages/decimals in money contexts, work with wages/salaries, checks and deposit slips, budgets, order forms, interest, time, Celsius temperature, and metric units of length/volume/mass.
Students solve three multi-step word problems per version: (1) choose the best-priced combination of burger and bun packs to buy ingredients for 80 hamburgers, completing a shopping-list table with item, unit price, quantity, and cost; (2) decide how a teacher could spend exactly $20 on treats for 24 students, proposing two different…
Students go through a pre-organized grocery checklist (grouped into Fridge, Freezer, Pantry, Personal Care, Household, and Miscellaneous sections) and, for each item, mark whether stock is High/Low/Out, whether it's a Want or Need, note it on their shopping list with a price, and total the price at the end.
Complete a sequence of worksheet exercises (in increasing difficulty) covering pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars: matching coins to prices, adding/subtracting coin values, making change, solving money word problems, and playing money games.
Cut out pictures of coins (dollar coin, half dollar, nickel, quarter, penny) and glue each one onto the correct labeled piggy bank.
Solve a crossword using money-related clues, unscramble letters to spell money words, and find money words hidden in a word search grid.
Use task cards showing prices and select/use coins to represent that value; record answers on a response/recording sheet using a game board and help sheet as support.
Open the linked Google Slides deck (make own copy), then read, type, and drag answers directly into each slide; answers can also be completed on paper from a displayed slide, assigned via Google Classroom, or emailed as a link for home completion.
Walk around the classroom to departments (produce, meat, etc.) posted with grocery item price cards, record the unit price of each item on their assigned shopping list, then multiply price by quantity for each item and add all items to find the total grocery bill (a simpler version has students find the cost of one of each item and add…
Identify coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar) and their values; cut and glue coin-value labels; write the value of pictured coins; match coin values; complete counting-by-ones/fives/tens/twenty-fives/fifties exercises leading to a dollar.
Read the comparison story (Raya vs. Lucien) and the skis example, then complete practice activities: list luxuries-turned-expectations, build a mindmap of common lifestyle upgrades, and research/calculate one-time vs. yearly costs for two lifestyle-change scenarios (moving to a bigger home; getting a pet).
Open the linked Google Slides deck (make own copy), then read, type, and drag answers directly into each slide; answers can also be completed on paper from a displayed slide, assigned via Google Classroom, or emailed as a link for home completion.
Students open a linked Google Slides deck (not contained in this PDF) and read, type, and drag answers into interactive slides covering living on a budget scenarios and vocabulary; teachers mark responses using the answer key and rubric in this PDF.
Here’s an engaging, summer-themed, real-world math budget project for your middle grades students (in grades 5-8). The math project incorporates useful personal finance and financial literacy skills along with realistic budgeting. Each student in your class is going to plan their purchases for a summer camping trip with friends! How to…
Cut out pictures of the coins and glue each onto the matching labeled piggy bank.
Count a set of coins, compare the total to the price of cupcake A and cupcake B, choose which cupcake(s) can be purchased, and explain the choice in writing.
Partners draw a snack card, record its price, and show a coin combination that pays the amount. Repeating the routine builds a purchase list to total at the end. The twelve prices range from $0.26 to $1.90, with six below one dollar and six above it, so learners work across that boundary.
Add the displayed dollar prices for each group of items and write the total sum.
Learn to say and recognize numbers 0-20, tens to 100, and large numbers (hundreds, thousands, millions, billions) with IPA pronunciation guidance; practice basic math operation vocabulary (plus, minus, times, divided by) by solving and reading aloud simple equations; complete a listening exercise identifying flight announcement numbers;…
Read prompts describing an item's cost in coins/bills (e.g. '3 dimes and 2 nickels') and calculate and write the total value, across two pages of 5 problems each.
Use the flash cards to practice identifying and reading each printed money amount, in sequence from 1 cent up to $1.00.
Add the displayed GBP/pound prices for each group of items and write the total sum.
Open the linked Google Slides deck (make own copy), then read, type, and drag answers directly into each slide; answers can also be completed on paper from a displayed slide, assigned via Google Classroom, or emailed as a link for home completion.