Guest Post: Education.com Money Math Games
It’s summertime, which can only mean one thing – it’s lemonade stand season! Money math games are needed!
Err…well, I guess it means more than that, but bear with me.
See, B and J have already set up shop once this summer, and raked in some serious (to them) money by selling lemonade. They now look forward to taking their earnings to a store and making it rain, bruh!
Or just buying a bunch of candy at that store. One or the other.
Anyway, B and J, while experienced hustlers, still have a lot to learn about the art of money. Fortunately, my good friends at Education.com have a fun, easy game to play, to help any young, budding entrepreneur or shopper. We had a great time when we played it at our house. Check it out!
Grocery Shopping Game
Want to make sure you raise a money-savvy kid? Start them out right with this activity that hides valuable math skills within a fun grocery store game. An added possible benefit of this game? It may encourage your child to join you on your next grocery pickup!
What You Need:
Money
Table
Several small objects
Paper
Construction paper
What You Do:
- Explain to your child that you will be the grocer and he will be the shopper.
- Lay out the small objects on the table. Objects can be anything from toys to clothes to food.
- Have your child help you make little paper tents out of the construction paper. (The simplest tent? Just a regular sheet of paper folded in half.)
- Write a price on each paper tent. Try to keep prices varied, but only as complicated as you think your child can handle.
- Group the items together and place a price tag in front of them. For example, all the 5 cent items should be in one group. All the $1 items are in one group and so on.
- Give your child a purse or baggie with some cash. If he has a wallet, this would be a good opportunity to use it.
- He can “buy” a number of things from you. But before you accept his money, ask him to tally up how much he owes you.
- If he gives you more than he owes, give him back change and ask him to count it.
- Continue to let him buy things until he runs out of money.
- Now let your child be the grocer. Have him organize the items by price on the table.
- Set him up with some coins and a couple of bills so that he can give you change.
- Go “buy” a couple items and pay him for them.
- If you want to challenge him, give him an incorrect amount of money and see how he handles it.
- After a couple rounds of this grocery game, he will be ready to shop at a real store!
HI there,
I am Sarah Grace Del Rosario. I am an education blogger from https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/blogs/author/sarah-grace-del-rosario.
I was wondering if you are still accepting guest post contributors? I was hoping to contribute an article about education.
Let me know on how I can return the favor. I can promote your site on my next blog post.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Sarah Grace Del Rosario