This particular one I developed for my third grade group, as one student really wanted the practice. Money helps with skip counting, addition facts, and can even be connected with fractions! It also has so many practical purposes, and can teach good spending/tracking habits. However, the beginning with money takes memorization, which can often be tricky for students to catch on to.
The activity I created involves each student being a food vendor. Every student visits each food stand and buys a good. Then, both students involved in the transaction track their spending. I related this to my own checkbook, and continuously helped them to relate spending money to subtraction & making money to addition.
My students absolutely loved this activity! The only thing I had to constantly remind them to do is track what they've bought.
The whole activity takes about 50 minutes, which I broke into three days (as one day was spent teaching it & visiting the vendor who had the lowest math fluency).
If you are interested, I created a PDF of all the resources, including an instructions sheet. It is offered for free on TeachersPayTeachers.
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I hope your students enjoy this as much as mine did!
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