Life Skills involving Money: Financial Literacy using Menu Math & Check Writing
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***REAL-WORLD MATH***Fun with decimals & percent!***
This Bundle includes Menu Math & Check Writing... and of course a BONUS Freebie to introduce students to Financial Literacy!
Life Skills - Real World Money Math
I love using real world math with my students! Economics is such a big part of life that sometimes gets skipped in the younger grades but financial literacy is so important. These lessons let students clearly see how math is used in their every day lives. My class always has so much fun with these money math lessons... they don't even realize how much they are learning about finance!
MENU MATH
- Lines up with Common Core Standards
- includes complete write up of a teacher lesson from the objective to the assessment
- contains leveled activities for differentiated instruction
- includes themed menu activities for birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas dinner
- amazing interactive lesson to meet the needs of all your students!
Use Menu Math over and over again! It is not just a one and done. The activities in this pack can last through a whole unit and beyond. Revisit during holiday time with unique themed menus and give students a new menu to review their skills.
Menu Math includes:
- matching menu items with prices
- adding menu items (lining up decimals)
- paying a bill/check at a restaurant
- calculating sales tax and tip
- finding a discount by using a coupon
- creating change from larger bills
WRITING CHECKS & Balancing a Checkbook with a Check Register
Students will visit fun stations around the room like The Pizza Parlor and The Lemonade Stand. They can even play a game that I like to call "Pick a Chick & Write a Check". Students get to choose from a series of baby chicks and figure out the dollar amount to write on their checks. It is great for partner work, independent work for your fast finishers, or use it in a small group!
Writing Checks includes:
- printable checkbook
- check register
- money word problems to solve & write checks
- QR codes for self checking
- teacher answer key
- 3 shops to visit, solve a problem & write a check to purchase
The QR Codes make students accountable for their work. When scanned, students will be able to check their answers as well as the work that was needed to get to their answer.
Students will be able to:
- write numbers in standard form
- write numbers in written form
- add and multiply decimals to determine amounts
- subtract with decimals to balance their checkbook using a check register (provided)
- sign their name
- and fill out a check properly!
How to Use these packs:
- math centers
- station rotation around the room
- added practice to your adding, subtracting, multiplying decimals lessons
- additional resources when teaching percent
- small group instruction
- homework
- independent enrichment
- class games that can get everyone involved!
Be sure to check out my Place Value Pack for some more real life activities like creating a store and finding a thief!
Real World Math for the win!
CC Standards: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples. Students will be able to: Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation. Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations. Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/l00 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
