Money Math Art ~ Shopping List Collage
Learning about money is an essential math skill that will benefit students throughout their lives.
This colorful, three-day project helps students:
- Connect money and math with art, imagination, and everyday activities like shopping
- Read prices
- Count money
- Make change
- Add and subtract dollars and cents
- Share ideas and mathematical reasoning with others
Students choose a theme for a shopping list ~ anything from Spring Break Wardrobe to Essential items for Doggy’s 2nd Birthday Party. With their theme in mind, they search fliers, newspapers, and local magazines to find items that they need. Once these deals are arranged in a collage, students calculate the cost and count out the money needed to pay for their items. Finally, everyone gets to share the work they’ve done with others in their class.
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