Daily Tips for Families

Today's Tip for Families

02-02-2024

Build Math and Money Skills

Teaching your child about money not only builds an important life skill, it helps your elementary schooler practice math, too. Young children see adults paying with cards and phones so much these days that they don’t learn as much about how money works in daily life as they used to. Playing "store" is a fun way to give your child practice.

Start by creating an imaginary cash register. Take $5 worth of change. Divide it into four small, shallow boxes—one each for pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Then, put together a bag of groceries and other store-bought items. If the items don’t have their prices on them, mark them with a price yourself.

Take turns with your child being cashier and customer. Make the game more challenging by increasing the number of items purchased. You might also include a product that is priced “3 for $1” and buy only one (explain how the store rounds the price up to 34 cents). Or see who can buy the most items without going over $5.

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Nye County Schools
Pahrump, NV

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