This Snack Bar Money Worksheet gives 3rd graders a real menu to add up, from two-item orders to a three-item money puzzle. Answer key included, so practice adding dollars and cents takes no prep.
This Counting Money Worksheet helps 3rd graders add up bills and coins in real-life word problems, then solve a two-step problem. An answer key is included for quick checking.
Use this find the total price worksheet to give 3rd graders four snack-shop orders to add and one spending problem to reason through. Answer key included, so money practice takes no prep.
This Find the Total Price Pictures Worksheet has 3rd graders add two price tags to find each total. Answer key included for quick, no-prep money and addition practice.
Money flash cards for kindergarten to 3rd grade with 24 fold-over coin cards, from one penny to a dollar. Answer key included, so kids can count coins and check their own work.
This Let's Go Shopping Money Word Problems Activity lets 2nd and 3rd Grade students solve toy store word problems with coins and bills, with an answer key included, so money skills feel real.
This money problem solving worksheet gives 3rd grade students four two-step word problems with dollars, cents, and coins, plus an answer key, to build real-world math confidence.
This Sweet Summer Treats money addition activity has 1st and 2nd grade students count coins and match them to treat prices, then add two prices. A practice page and answer key are included.
The Making Cents Adding Decimals Worksheet lets 3rd grade students write coin values as decimals and add them in columns, with an answer key included for quick checking and confident money skills.
This Small Things Add Up reading comprehension worksheet gives 3rd Grade readers a 223-word story about saving coins, four questions, a written response and an answer key, so comprehension and money sense are practiced together.
Using A Dime A Dozen Counting Dimes Activity, students practice counting dimes amount by playing a "Go Fish" inspired game.
The Snack Bar Payment Worksheet has 3rd grade students read a snack bar menu, add prices in dollars and cents, and solve a multi-step money story problem. An answer key is included, so checking takes seconds.
Count it, spend it, make change
Third graders use money to practice real math. They count mixed coins and bills, write amounts with a dollar sign and decimal point like $3.45, add prices to find a total, and subtract to make change: $5.00 − $3.45 = $1.55. Money word problems mix addition, subtraction and sometimes multiplication ("3 pencils at 25¢ each"). Money is also a friendly first look at decimals. The click comes when a child pays at a pretend store and figures out the change before the cashier does.
Money makes sense when kids handle it and use it. These moves bring the store into the classroom.
Flash money cards and have kids call out the value, then the total of two or three cards. Quick daily practice makes counting mixed coins automatic, which frees kids to focus on word problems.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withMoney Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Set up a pretend store with price tags. Kids get a budget, shop, add their totals and pay with play money. Making real choices with real prices gives money math a purpose.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withLet's Go Shopping Money Word Problems ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Post one money word problem each morning and let kids solve it in their notebooks before math. Mix addition, subtraction and making change. Daily mixed problems build flexible thinking.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withMoney Problem Solving WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Money activities with snacks, treats and shopping.
WorksheetsOrder from a snack bar menu, add up your total and see if you have enough money.
Open Snack Bar Money Worksheet →
WorksheetsAdd money amounts with decimal points and check your work with play coins.
Open Making Cents Adding Decimals Worksheet →
ActivitiesAdd up the cost of ice cream and lemonade orders at a summer treat stand.
Open Sweet Summer Treats Money Addition Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Snack Bar Money Worksheet, Counting Money Worksheet and Find the Total Price Worksheet.
Third graders should count mixed coins and bills, write money amounts with a dollar sign and decimal, add prices, make change and solve money word problems.
Use "counting up": start at the price and count up to the amount paid. For a $3.45 item paid with $5, count 5¢ to $3.50, 50¢ to $4.00, then $1 to $5.00. That's $1.55 in change.
Money uses decimals every day. Kids already know $0.50 is half a dollar, so money gives them an easy way to understand tenths and hundredths.
Let your child pay at the store and check the change. Play store with real price tags, or give a small budget for snacks and let them plan.
Loved by 2 million teachers & families
Printables, songs and games for every subject, Preschool through 6th. Ready to teach today, and kids beg for more.
