Grocery Game: Estimating, Adding, and Multiplying Decimals - Winter Holidays Edition

Grocery Game: Estimating, Adding, and Multiplying Decimals - Winter Holidays Edition

This resource is a fun, interactive math game designed for students in grades 3-6. It will help your students practice adding and multiplying decimals while they shop to hit the target amount!

The game includes 4 rounds with grocery shopping items for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa holidays. Every round presents five food items to the students who practice estimating costs to manage a given budget.

Whole class activity:

• This engaging exercise makes learning mathematical concepts more concrete than abstract learning alone. Students are shopping for a purpose!

• Realistic applications make education impactful and enjoyable for students, and math games are always a hit with my students!

How to Use:

This is a fun, whole class activity that you need to be able to project in your classroom on an interactive whiteboard. It is a Powerpoint presentation so you can move the boxes that cover the prices of each item after the students have guessed the price- just like on a real game show!

• You give your students a target budget (for example between $50-52).

• The smaller the budget range, the more challenging it will be.

• Students have to buy at least four of the items.

• Ask one student to choose one item at a time.

• The student guesses the price and chooses how many they want to buy of it.

• Then you reveal the price, all of the students students calculate how much they have spent, and you move on to the next item!

Grades to Use With:

This is a fun game for grades 3-6 when you are studying money, grocery shopping, and decimal operations. Even kids in middle school will have fun playing along!

What's Included:

A total of 6 pages in PowerPoint Format (so you can move the price covers once your students have guessed).

Title Page

Instructions

Christmas

Kwanzaa

Hanukkah

Holiday Treats

If you enjoy this game, check out my other rounds:

Original Grocery Game

Spring Grocery Game

Fall Grocery Game