Menu Math for Real Life Money Skills in Special Education - Diner Menus

Empower your students by helping them learn practical real-life math skills with money to place orders with traditional menus. They can choose their order and determine how much their meals will cost. It's great for working on adding prices and it's already differentiated.

This practical math series includes 4 sit-down restaurants menus with differentiated pricing and photo visual cues. Each of the menus can be used with the same set of 200 task cards. This allows you to use the same tools with different menus geared for the individual students' math objectives in a meaningful way.

Here's what you'll get:

• 4 Diner Menus With the Same Items, Each with Different Pricing
  • The Select Diner has 1 has whole numbers - dollar prices
  • The Prime Diner has prices with 25 cent increments
  • The Elegant Diner has prices in 5-cent increments and
  • The First-Class Diner has prices to the penny

• Each menu has photos of the menu items and is differentiated by color and name for easy reference

• 200 money task cards with word problems and photo cues
  • All the task cards work with every menu
  • Each card has photos of the items in the word problem for easy curriculum modification

Task cards include:

• • 36 task cards in which the students find the 1 price of the food item on the menu
  • 131 task cards in which the students find and add the prices of 2 items on the menu
  • 33 task cards in which the students find and add the prices of 3 items on the menu

A PowerPoint file of all the individual task cards for using with a projector.

Answer Keys for the task cards with each of the 4 menus.

What You'll Love

Whether your students are working on functional skills, such as finding the price of an item on the menu, or are working on simple addition of multiple prices, this set will build their functional money and basic math skills. With the engaging visuals in the menu and the task cards, life skills students can access the main content of the program regardless of their reading abilities.

This basic math program is designed for students working on identifying prices, writing prices, and adding 1 or 2 prices together.

Easy Additional Applications

• Because each menu is set up to work with all 200 task cards, you can easily use this real-life math program with all your students in a group.
  • You can put the task card on the projector with the Powerpoint and have each student use a copy of their individualized menu to answer the question. This makes a great way to set up math centers or morning work around functional skills.

• Use the task cards in independent work systems for students to practice and generalize their skills.
• Use the sit-down restaurants menus to set up role-play activities in the classroom for students to order from the menu and determine how much money they need. Give students money in their wallet and have them determine if they have the right money amounts to cover the price of their meals
• Make posters of specific menu pages as menu order boards to practice ordering at a counter.
• Print the task cards 4 to a page to create money math worksheets.

Use these materials for independent math work, a math center, or for specialized instruction at any time students need money math activities. These functional math materials can also be repurposed for basic reading materials and for role-playing situations before community-based instruction.

Grab this high-interest program to make the most of your money math activities and help your special needs students step into their communities with confidence.

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