109 Shopping for Clothes

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will compare clothing prices, decide what they can afford, calculate totals, and practice making choices within a small budget.

Vocabulary
price, budget, spend, total, cost, choose

Teaching Notes

• Use simple clothing items: socks, shirts, hats.
• Compare prices: “Which costs more? Which costs less?”
• Model staying within a budget.
• Practice adding two small prices.
• Talk about wants vs needs when shopping for clothes.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Clothes have different prices.
We use a budget to decide what we can buy.
We must check the total before paying.

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need:
Picture cards: socks ($2), hat ($3), shirt ($4), scarf ($2)

What You Do:

1. Students get a $7 clothing budget.
2. Choose 1–2 items.
3. Add prices to find the total.
4. Stay within the budget.
5. Share choices with a partner.

Vocabulary and Definition

• — how much something costs
• — a limit on money you can spend
• — all prices added together

Words to Learn

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Questions to Answer

Story:
Sara goes shopping with $7.
She wants socks for $2, a hat for $3, and a shirt for $4.

1. What is the price of the socks?

2. What is the price of the hat?

3. What is the price of the shirt?

4. If Sara buys socks and a hat, what is the total?

5. How much money will she have left after buying socks and a hat?

6. Can she buy the $4 shirt with $2 left?

7. How could Sara change her plan?

🧮 Finance Math Practice

1. Socks cost $2. You have $3. Can you buy them?

2. A hat costs $3. You have $2. Enough?

3. A shirt costs $4. You pay $5. Change?

4. Two items cost $2 and $4. Total?

5. Your budget is $6. You spend $5. Left?

6. You want socks ($2) and a scarf ($2). Total?

7. A shirt is $4. A hat is $3. Your budget is $6. Can you buy both?

8. A scarf costs $2. You have $5. Left after buying it?

9. Your budget is $7. Items cost $3 and $3. Total? Left?

10. You buy a $4 shirt with $4. Change?

Reflection

• Why is it important to check prices when shopping?

• What clothing item would you buy first with $5?