Money Sense is the perfect way to build students' math skills while helping them gain a true appreciation for math in everyday living. This comprehensive book offers plenty of practice using everything from addition to division, percents, fractions, decimals, and more! Students are introduced to a variety of money situations such as: budgeting, credit cards, income tax, savings and checking accounts, getting paid and paychecks, sales discounts. A real, practical application of math!

What shall I do now, teacher? At last, an answer to the age old question! These innovative, creative, and extremely fun activities give the busy teacher a viable supply of creative activities that will keep students constructively busy and challenged for periods of 5 to 15 minutes. Directions are clear so students may work on their own without assistance. Skills Covered Include: - finding facts - independent thinking - logic - problem solving - perception - decoding - vocabulary - observation - following directions - sequencing - computing - context clues

What shall I do now, teacher? At last, an answer to the age old question! These innovative, creative, and extremely fun activities give the busy teacher a viable supply of creative activities that will keep students constructively busy and challenged for periods of 5 to 15 minutes. Directions are clear so students may work on their own without assistance. Skills Covered Include: - finding facts - independent thinking - logic - problem solving - perception - decoding - vocabulary - observation - following directions - sequencing - computing - context clues

Improve reading comprehension and help students get started on the road to a life-long pattern of nutrition with these high-interest/low readability stories. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12 Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to: - read for details - make inferences - find the main idea - find facts - summarize data - build vocabulary - draw conclusions - restate information - make decisions Contents Include: - High-Interest/Low Readability Stories - Pre/Post-Test - Word Search - Glossary - Answer Key

Improve reading comprehension and help students get started on the road to a life-long pattern of good grooming with these high-interest/low readability stories. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12 Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to: - read for details - make inferences - find the main idea - find facts - summarize data - build vocabulary - draw conclusions - restate information - make decisions Contents Include: - High-Interest/Low Readability Stories - Pre/Post-Test - Word Search - Glossary - Answer Key

Improve reading comprehension and help students get started on the road to a life-long pattern of good exercise with these high-interest/low readability stories. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12 Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to: - read for details - make inferences - find the main idea - find facts - summarize data - build vocabulary - draw conclusions - restate information - make decisions Contents Include: - High-Interest/Low Readability Stories - Pre/Post-Test - Word Search - Glossary - Answer Key

From burgers to burritos, nearly everything you might order from a fast food restaurant can be found on the colorful menus included in this practical math unit. Contents Include: - 58 Activities - 4 Full Color, Fast-Food Menus - 4 Black-and-White Versions of the Menus for easy printing Give students an opportunity to practice using math in real-life situations. Students learn such skills as reading a menu, figuring food costs, making change, finding how much more money is needed to purchase an item, computing how much money is left over after making a purchase, and totaling receipts. Figuring sales tax is introduced in this unit with the help of a 7% sales tax table. As students work the activities, their confidence in reading a menu and figuring the costs associated with it will increase. Math objectives are clearly stated on each page making it easy to focus on the skills your students need most. Activities include addition and subtraction computation problems, as well as practical application word problems. For students who need a refresher on adding and subtracting money, step-by-step instruction pages are located throughout the unit. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 3-12

From burgers to burritos, nearly everything you might order from a fast food restaurant can be found on the colorful menus included in this practical math unit. Contents Include: - 43 Activities - 2 Full Color Menus - 2 Black-and-White Versions of the Menus for easy printing Give students an opportunity to practice using math in real-life situations. Students will learn such skills as reading a menu, figuring food costs, making change, finding how much more money is needed to purchase an item, and computing how much money is left over after making a purchase. As students work the activities, their confidence in reading a menu and figuring the costs associated with it will increase. Math objectives are clearly stated on each page making it easy to focus on the skills your students need most. Activities include basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication computations, as well as practical application word problems. For students who need a refresher on adding, subtracting, or multiplying money, step-by-step instruction pages are located throughout the unit. Reading Level 1-2 | Interest Level 3-12

A delicious way to improve functional math skills! Students will travel the board visiting up to six different restaurants, placing orders, sticking to a budget, using money, making change, and much more! Contents Include: - Gameboard (Black & white and measures 8.5x11" for easy printing!) - 6 Menus - Instructions - Spinner & Pawns - Money (Black & white for easy printing if you don't already have play money.) - 18-Page Extended Activities Activities: The included activities are great to use for review of the concepts in the game! Students answer comprehension questions and solve word problems based on the six menus used in the game. Also includes step-by-step instructions for adding and subtracting money. Plus a receipt template and answer key are included. 6 Menus: - Italian Food - Breakfast Diner - Chinese Food - Mexican Food - Seafood - Country Diner

Reinforce Consumer Math Skills with this Beginning Money Skills Game It’s never too early for students to develop an interest in earning, saving, and spending money! With this game, players get realistic practice handling money. As student play the game, they add and subtract money as they take turns earning and spending money with tasks like giving the dog a bath or buying a movie ticket. This game is open-ended and may conclude when one player has more than $20 or when one player has moved his or her pawn completely around the board. Using games to teach and reinforce basic skills is a highly effective way to motivate students to learn! This game is ideal for 2-6 players, and is great for small groups and math centers. Contents Include: - Gameboard (Black & white and measures 8.5x11" for easy printing!) - Instructions - Spinner & Pawns - Money (Black & white for easy printing if you don't already have play money.) - 24 "Take A Chance!" Task Cards - Blank / Editable Task Cards (So you can create unique instructions that grab your students' attention.) Interest Level: 3-12

From calculating discounts to calculating parts of a whole to calculating sales tax, percents are a part of everyday life. This unit focuses entirely on the use of percents in real-life situations. As students work through the activities, they will take their knowledge of percents to a new, practical level. Students use advertisements, menus, and coupons to figure out word problems that involve purchasing items on sale and figuring sales tax. Tax tables help students learn to figure income tax and net pay. Circle graphs help students visualize percents as coming from a whole. Drill pages give students extra practice with percents. Working these practice problems will help students develop the skills necessary for a solid understanding of percents as percents relate to daily life. Skill Covered: - Changing Percents to Decimals - How to Figure Percents – Discounts & Sales Tax - Figuring Percents & Prices - Figuring Prices & Sales Tax - Taxes & the Government - Coupons & Percents - Percents & Circle Graphs - Percent Word Problems