👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will learn how to pay at a store, count exact amounts, recognize when they need more money, and understand the idea of getting change.

Vocabulary
price, pay, change, total, coins, dollars

Teaching Notes

• Model paying with play money: show exact amounts and overpaying.
• Explain that change is the money you get back when you pay more than the price.
• Practice small-price items: $1–$5.
• Use role-play: cashier and customer.
• Reinforce checking: “Do I have enough?”

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

When we buy something at a store, we pay the price.
If we pay more than the price, we get change.
We must check if we have enough money before buying.

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need:
Play money, small items with prices ($1–$5), shopping baskets.

What You Do:

1. Students pick 1–2 items.
2. Add prices to find the total.
3. Pay using play money.
4. Cashier gives change if needed.
5. Students record each purchase.

Vocabulary and Definition

• — how much something costs
• — to give money for something
• — money you get back
• — all prices added together
• — the money we use

Words to Learn

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Questions to Answer

Story:
Mia goes to a small store.
She wants a juice for $3 and a cookie for $2.
She has $6 in her wallet.

1. What is the price of the juice?

2. What is the price of the cookie?

3. What is the total for both items?

4. Mia has $6. Does she have enough?

5. If she pays with $6, how much change will she get?

6. Why does she get change?

7. What could Mia buy if she only had $3?

🧮 Finance Math Practice

1. A pencil costs $1. You pay $2. Change?

2. A snack costs $3. You have $4. Enough?

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

4. A toy costs $5. You have $3. Can you buy it?

5. You buy two items: $2 and $3. Total?

6. You pay $5 for something that costs $4. Change?

7. You buy an eraser for $2. You have $1. Enough?

8. A sticker costs $1. You have $3. How much left after buying it?

9. You buy a $4 item with $4. Change?

10. A book costs $6. You have $6. Enough?

Reflection

• Why do stores give change?

• Why should you check the total before paying?