Grocery Store Math

About this resource

Teaching grocery store math to first, second and third graders and need sheets they can actually work on? This is a complete set: read a price tag, read a store flyer, add the prices to find the total, and decide if there is enough money. Everything is practice with invented grocery stores and made-up prices, in three levels marked by a small circle, square or triangle. Circle sheets use whole dollars and one or two things. Square sheets use three things, a shopping-list budget and a YES or NO sort. Triangle sheets use dollars and cents in simple steps (0.25, 0.50, 0.75). Every sheet has a "My name" line, one short instruction and big boxes to write in, and answer keys give every answer.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (34 pages)

• 18 student sheets in 9 kinds of page, each with a name line and one short instruction with a small picture cue
• 90 scored items across 14 scored worksheets, every answer computed from the same price list that draws the page
• 2 Read the Price Tag sheets (whole dollars, then dollars and cents): 8 food pictures each with a price tag, write the price, and 2 questions each (which costs the most, which costs the least)
• 2 store flyers (Maple Street Market in whole dollars, Corner Grocery with cents), 9 priced foods each, 4 questions each (how much is one thing, the most, the least, two things together)
• 3 Find the Total sheets, 6 problems each: two things in whole dollars, three things in whole dollars, two things with cents
• 3 Do I Have Enough Money? sheets, 20 questions in all: a wallet beside one price (8 questions), a wallet against two prices added together (6), the same with cents and a more-or-left box (6). Tick YES or NO; exactly enough counts as YES. 10 of the 20 are YES and 10 are NO
• 2 Which Costs Less? sheets, 6 pairs each (dollars, then cents): tick the one that costs less
• 2 My Shopping List sheets (a 12 dollar budget and a 6 dollar budget): pick things from a flyer, write the list, total, left over, and tick YES or NO
• 2 cut-and-glue sheets, 12 pieces in all: Match the Price (cut 6 price tags, glue each by its picture) and Enough Money? (cut 6 wallet cards, glue 3 in YES and 3 in NO). Pieces are 2.4 by 1.25 inches, six to a sheet in a 3 by 2 grid, edge to edge, so there are only a few straight cuts
• 1 Think About Shopping sheet (3 written questions, 4 ruled lines each) and 1 self check (7 "I can" statements)
• 3 answer keys; 1 tracker (14 scored sheets), 1 class grid (15 students, 6 skill columns), 1 team note, 1 family page
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (17 starters in 6 groups)
• A binder cover with type-in teacher and class fields, and a sheet of divider tabs (Price Tags, Flyers, Totals, Enough Money?, Keys) with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here and a how-to-read-a-page sheet

Built For The Student Holding The Page

A "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture cue, a plain scalloped border and big boxes to write in. Each food is a picture of one thing with a price tag beside it, so a child reads the number off the tag. Nothing on a student sheet is written for an adult: the keys and records are on separate teacher sheets. The cut sheets have six pieces in a strip-and-grid layout, edge to edge. The price tags and the wallet are drawn at a size a child can read, and every price is written in numbers, so the file prints clean in black and white. The food pictures are clip art; the price tags, awnings and wallets are drawn for this file.

Invented Stores And Prices

Every store, food and price is made up for practice. Neither store is real, and the pictures do not say what anything costs anywhere. Prices are written the way a register shows them (1.25) with the word "dollars" on the tag, and no currency symbol is used anywhere in the file. Whole-dollar sheets use prices from 1 to 9. The cents sheets use simple amounts like 0.50, 0.75 and 1.25. The only student in the file is an invented example, and it says so.

Type In, Or Print

The name line, every answer box, every check box, every table cell and every ruled work box are type-in fields in any PDF reader: click one, type, then save. The sheets also print, and the check boxes can be marked by hand. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A set of grocery-price practice sheets with the record-keeping around it: reading prices, finding totals, comparing a wallet to a price, picking the lower price and staying in a budget. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool, or a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file, and no claim of alignment to any standard. The tracker has a blank line for your own goal wording.

Who This Is For

Teachers of life-skills and special education classes, math centers and small groups in grades 1-3, and families who want real-world money practice at the grocery store that a child can read.

If You Want More

Do I Have Enough Money? Worksheets | Menus, Flyers, Making Change Grades 6-12 (for older students); Task Box: Enough Money or Not Enough? | Special Education Life Skills Money; Money Word Problems Worksheets | Coins Under a Dollar, 1st-2nd Grade.