Grocery Shopping Math – Counting Money Activity
- Grades
- Grades 2–3, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Math, Money
- Topic
- grocery shopping math, math activities
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- 2.MD.A.8
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Students love learning how to count money! Money is an essential life skill that many students are able to possess background knowledge on before teachers introduce it to them. This is great for us! The best thing we can do is ensure we place concrete learning opportunities in front of students to really make the skill stick. A hands-on activity that students are sure to love is Grocery Shopping Math. This is a favorite with students!
The objective of this activity is for students to:
-Correctly identify coins and bills up to $100
-Correctly determine money totals
-Correctly add money, given food objects to put together
How To Use This:
Help your students learn to count money by pretending to grocery shop. Students will place their "groceries" in the shopping cart and then add up the cost of all the food items. Cut out coins and bills to glue onto the worksheets to show how much money should be given to the cashier. Money anchor charts will help you teach your students about how much each coin and bill is worth. Laminate task cards to put into an independent math center or box. This resource is great for 2nd – 3rd grade students. I've had many teachers tell me it becomes the students' favorite math center and they can barely pry them away!
What You Get:
· 54 colorful grocery cards
· 23 worksheets
· Grocery Cart Mat
· Money Cut-Out Sheet
· 10 money anchor charts
· 36 task cards
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify coins and bills up to $100 by name and value.
Add the prices of multiple grocery items to find a total cost.
Select the correct combination of bills and coins to pay a given total.
Plan a simple meal (main course, side dish, dessert) and calculate its total cost.
Teaching tips
Print and laminate the grocery cards and shopping cart mats so they can be reused across a full class or in an independent math center, as the file's own how-to-use page suggests.
Introduce the money anchor charts before the first worksheet so students have a coin/bill reference in place before they need to make change.
Start with the pre-written Shopping List worksheets before moving to the open-ended Plan a Meal worksheets, since the meal-planning task requires students to choose their own items and ingredients.
Skills covered
Coin and bill identification — the money anchor charts and 'Show How Much' task have students name and select the correct denomination.
Addition of multi-item totals — Shopping List worksheets have students add up the price of several grocery items.
Making change with physical money representations — students cut out and glue play money to match a calculated total.
Real-world budgeting — the Plan a Meal worksheets have students select ingredients for a menu and total the cost of a full meal.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
What are the two worksheet formats included?
Shopping List worksheets give students a pre-written list of groceries to price and total, while Plan a Meal worksheets are more open-ended, having students choose ingredients for a main course, side dish, and dessert and calculate the total meal price.
How do students show the amount they would pay the cashier?
After totaling the amount, students cut out play money from the money cut-out sheet and glue the correct bills and coins onto the worksheet in the 'Show How Much' section.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- 2.MD.A.8 — Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
Core concepts
Core concepts
counting money
coin and bill identification
real-world addition
budgeting for a meal
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