Promote real-world problem-solving skills
Covers addition, subtraction, and fractions
Includes answer key and FutureFit Extension Activities
To solve these money problems, students identify coins, add and subtract money, and practice basic division.
This worksheet includes several FutureFit Extension Activities that highlight 21st Century skills like critical thinking, service mentality, and creativity. These FutureFit Extension Activities are designed to reinforce the concepts included in the worksheet activity while integrating real-world skills. They can be used as in-class independent practice or group activities, or assigned for take-home or independent work.
Use this worksheet with real coins or the manipulatives from this printable coin sheet.
FutureFit Extension Activities
Solve
As a capstone challenge problem, have students calculate the total amount of money the correct answers on the bottom portion of the worksheet add up to ($4.47). Model several different ways for them to arrive at the answer (i.e. adding the first two answers to find them sum, then adding the next answer to the sum, and so on).
Get Real
Using the total amount arrived at in the previous activity, have students calculate the number of school lunches that could be purchased using that money.
