Money Math Life Skills Worksheet: Grocery Shopping Level 1
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Level 1 Grocery Shopping Money Math
Level 1 Grocery Shopping Money Math is a helpful tool in Special Education that assists middle school students in learning how to figure out the prices of groceries, like fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, dry goods, canned foods, sweets, personal care items, and household products.
This Money Math Life Skills Worksheet helps students practice the following:
- Figuring out the total cost when buying multiples of the same product (Improves multiplication skills).
- Finding the total cost for various items with different prices (Strengthens addition skills).
- Calculating the cost of fruits and vegetables based on their weight (Enhances both multiplication and addition skills).
This Money Math Life Skills Worksheet includes a total of 64 questions to work on!
Middle school students can use this worksheet to develop the necessary life skills to become more independent at school, at home and community.
You can use this activity in special education classes or one-on-one settings like speech therapy, occupational therapy, ABA therapy, or Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) sessions.
This is an excellent resource for defining, setting, and measuring IEP goals for middle school students working on independent living.
Interactive, hands-on, and community instruction are excellent uses for this life skills activity.
All correct answers are provided at the end of each section.
This activity contains step-by-step instructions, questions, and answers that reinforce learning, age-appropriate graphics, real-world examples, and ideas for implementation.
This is the perfect special education activity for grade 7, grade 8, grade 9, and autism life skill centers.
It's a printable, easy-to-use activity ready to hand out!
Engage your special education class with this highly interactive Middle School Money Math Life Skills Worksheet!
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A PDF with 38 unique pages. Color and black-and-white versions of each page are available for this pdf resource.
Teaching Tips & Learning Objectives
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Learning Objectives:
Determine which grocery items can be purchased for a specific total.
Use addition to combine item prices and check accuracy.
Apply multi-step reasoning to solve practical spending scenarios.
Teaching Tips:
Model the sample problems on pages 3–4 before students begin independent work.
Use color pages for initial instruction and black-and-white pages for repeated practice.
Encourage students to estimate totals before calculating to build number sense.
Skills Covered:
Addition with decimals
Life-skills numeracy
Practical decision-making in everyday contexts
FAQs:
Does this resource include examples?
Yes, pages 3–4 show worked examples demonstrating each step. 
Is this suitable for supported or special education settings?
Yes, the predictable structure and visual item arrays support diverse learners.
Are answer keys included?
The file contains completed examples, but individual answer keys for each scenario are not included.
About This Product
A set of beginner-level worksheets that teach students to identify purchased grocery items based on a total amount spent.
What's Included
Seventy-six pages with full-color and black-and-white worksheets, step-by-step examples, and 32 grocery shopping scenarios.
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37
Standards & Curriculum
CCSS Math (Kindergarten, Grade 2, Grade 4):
2.NBT.A.2 - Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
4.NBT.B.4 - Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
K.MD.A.2 - Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/“less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter
Core Concepts:
Basic money math
Real-world shopping decisions
Identifying item combinations that match a given total
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