Grocery Shopping and Counting Money Math Activity | Real Life Math

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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