Grocery Store Math
Grocery Store Math activities are built around the concept that children can and should learn in context of ‘real life’ activity and experiences.
Most adults use more math skills in the activity of visiting the grocery store and selecting and purchasing the weekly food items for the family, than in any other activity on routine. By providing learning activities, as a family, around this chore, children will learn concepts and skills in experiences that will engage them authentically. The descriptions below show the types of standards that can be easily experienced within the grocery store setting. Additionally, resources which reinforce this concept can be purchased from TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking on the link. As resources are developed, the links in the sections become ‘live’ and the resource can be accessed.
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Pre-K and Kindergarten
Resources for parents of students preparing for Kindergarten
- Measurement
- Larger / Smaller / Equal
- Heavier / Lighter
- Counting
- Addition / Subtraction
- Basic Shapes
1st Grade
- Use addition and subtraction to solve word problems within 1-20
- Odd and Even numbers
- Place value
- Order objects by length
- Understand subtraction
- Relate counting to addition and subtraction
- Count to 120
- Add to within 100
2nd Grade
- Addition / Subtraction w/in 100
- Fluently add and subtract within 100
- Find total number of objects arranged in arrays of up to 5 x 5
- Read and write whole numbers up to 1000
- Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
3rd and 4th Grade
- Addition / Subtraction w/in 1000
- Identify arrays as representation of multiplication
- Use place value to round numbers
- Basics of linear functions (readiness for Algebra)
- Representing data
- Compare fractions
- Understand relative size of measurement units
- Apply area and perimeter measurements
- Recognize line of symmetry
5th and 6th Grade
- Understand the concept of ratio and basic linear function
- Understand the concept of unit rate
- Understand positive and negative numbers
- Surface Area
- Solve real world problems by writing equations
- Find volume of right rectangular prisms
- Find volume of sphere
- Understand that a set of data can be described statistically