Counting Money - Cupcake Coins Game - Task Cards & Response Sheet
Practice counting coins within one dollar using a cupcake-themed task-card game.
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Practice counting coins within one dollar using a cupcake-themed task-card game.
A financial literacy (money/coin value) practice book using a 'pop it' shading mechanic, where students shade circles to represent target amounts using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, for American and Canadian currency.
Multi-day project-based math unit where students plan a themed class party: brainstorming, researching costs from store flyers, adding decimals to build a budget, and designing a proposal, aligned to Common Core math-practice and grade 3-4 ELA writing standards.
An interactive Google Slides lesson on menu math & grocery shopping math, part of the 'Daily Marketplace Skills' series teaching practical money-management/consumer skills to middle and high school students, including special-education classrooms.
A teacher-facing PDF companion (instructions, setup, and answer key) for an external Google Slides practical-life-skills activity on 'Living on a Budget', part of the Classroom Complete Press Practical Life Skills SPED series for grades 9-12+.
Practice adding GBP/pound amounts by finding the total price of grouped items.
An interactive Google Slides lesson on value of money and budgeting, part of the 'Daily Marketplace Skills' series teaching practical money-management/consumer skills to middle and high school students, including special-education classrooms.
Applies percentage and decimal skills to a real-world budgeting task: allocating a given dollar budget for a birthday party across categories.
Real-world financial literacy/consumer math project in which students research and plan a hypothetical wedding budget.
Integrates financial literacy (sales tax, hourly wages, saving up for a purchase) with math practice on equivalent ratio tables and graphing ordered pairs.
An interactive Google Slides lesson on web buying and internet fraud, part of the 'Daily Marketplace Skills' series teaching practical money-management/consumer skills to middle and high school students, including special-education classrooms.
Money-math practice for comparing mixed denominations of coins and bills for students in grades 2-4.
A high school financial literacy project where students compare a single-income vs. dual-income family budget to evaluate the real-world trade-offs of one parent staying home for childcare versus both parents working.
A middle/high school personal finance and budgeting project teaching students to differentiate needs vs. wants and build a monthly budget.
A real-world financial literacy budgeting project where students research and compare the three ways to pay for a car (saving, loan, lease) and calculate the full monthly cost of car ownership.
Practice counting mixed coins and dollar bills and recording totals using dollar-and-cent notation, via a 'scoot' style rotation activity.
A math mat activity where students represent given amounts of money using tossed coins.
A year-long (180-day) Grade 3 curriculum combining reading comprehension practice with financial literacy content, using daily narrative passages about money concepts organized into 12 themed units.
Practice counting mixed (non-grouped) coin denominations to a total dollar-and-cents amount, using the 'hairy money' strategy, in print or digital form.
A single-topic 'chapter slice' teacher resource (from the Daily Marketplace Skills series) teaching grades 6-12 the value of money and budgeting.
An 8-slide worked-example lesson teaching students how to compare unit prices ('best value for money') when items are sold in different package quantities, by dividing price by quantity.
A financial-literacy booklet teaching middle/high school students about different payment methods (cash, debit card, credit card, cheque, money order, and digital payment technologies like Venmo, Apple/Google Pay, e-transfer, PayPal, cryptocurrency), paired with related math practice.
This resource is a Counting Coins Digital Activity. Packed with 100 slides , students will be fully engaged with this digital activity that allows them to select answers and the slides will progress students to tell them to try again, if they get the answer wrong.
A single-topic 'chapter slice' teacher resource (from the Daily Marketplace Skills series) teaching grades 6-12 how to read menus and calculate grocery-shopping costs.