Product Description
⚡ Flash Sale Bundle — Two best-selling money resources, one low price
Bundle price: $14.99 — both resources together for less than buying them separately ($17.99 value). You save $3.00!
Teaching money to special education students feels impossible when your learners are at completely different places — some are still figuring out how much money to hand the cashier, while others are ready to add up a whole order. This functional money skills bundle gives you both: the next dollar up strategy to teach the foundational skill, plus a menu math program to practice it in a real restaurant setting your students will love.
It’s the complete path from “do I have enough money?” all the way to “I ordered my lunch and paid for it myself” — and it’s all differentiated and ready to print.
❤️ Why these two go together
You shouldn’t have to teach the strategy in one program and the real-world practice in another. This bundle connects them.
✅ Start with the strategy. The Next Dollar Up resource teaches students who struggle with making change how to determine whether they have enough money to make a purchase — counting the dollars in the price plus “one more for change.”
✅ Then apply it to real life. Menu Math takes that exact skill into a sit-down restaurant, where students read a menu, find prices, add items, and figure out what they need to pay.
✅ Differentiate without prepping anything new. Between the two products you’ll have leveled menus, faded graphic organizers, and color and black-and-white materials, so every student in your room can work on functional money skills at their own level.
Together they make a true scope-and-sequence for teaching money to special education and life skills students — from first instruction through real-world generalization.
📦 What’s included in the bundle
💵 Next Dollar Up Making Change Strategy (reg. $11.99)
A complete instructional toolkit for teaching the next dollar up strategy with $1, $5, $10, and $20 bills:
- Step-by-step teaching instructions and a scope-and-sequence for systematically teaching money skills, plus materials lists for each step
- 2 teaching programs with data sheets (one for price tags, one for word problems) — perfect for matching a next dollar up IEP goal
- 5 mini books (color and black-and-white) walking through each step of the strategy
- 2 flip books — number lines and equivalent amounts for $5, $10, and $20
- 15 five-flap matchbooks for interactive notebooks or stand-alone foldables
- 104 task cards total — 40 color “circle the bills” cards, plus black-and-white word-problem cards with 3-step, 2-step (faded), and independent graphic organizers
- 12 bonus task cards for next-dollar app purchases
- Every material provided in color and black-and-white
🍔 Menu Math for Special Education — 4 Levels (reg. $6.00)
A high-interest, all-visual menu math program for functional math and real-life money skills:
- 4 diner menus, same items, four pricing levels so the whole class can use one program:
- Select Diner — whole-dollar prices
- Prime Diner — 25-cent increments
- Elegant Diner — 5-cent increments
- First-Class Diner — prices to the penny
- 200 money task cards with word problems and photo cues that work with every menu (36 find-one-price, 131 add-two-prices, 33 add-three-prices)
- PowerPoint of every task card for projecting during whole-group or center work
- Answer keys for all four menus
- Photo visuals throughout so students can access the math regardless of reading level
⭐ What you’ll LOVE about this money skills bundle
💗 It meets every learner where they are. Picture cues and leveled pricing mean a student who is just learning the next dollar up strategy and a student adding three menu prices can work side by side on the same real-world money skill.
💗 It’s ready to teach — today. Detailed teaching programs, lesson steps, and built-in data collection are already done for you. No more building a data sheet from scratch for every skill.
💗 It builds toward independence. Use the materials for direct instruction and discrete trials, then move them into independent work systems, math centers, morning work, and role-play before community-based instruction.
💗 It connects straight to IEP goals. Both resources are built around functional money objectives, with data sheets to track progress on next dollar up and menu math skills.
🧑🏫 Perfect for
Special education, life skills, autism, and resource classrooms working on functional money skills, making change, next dollar up, and money math — in elementary through high school and transition programs.
💬 What teachers are saying
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “We are working with money and the next dollar up is one unit that our students are working to master. This resource helped our kiddos that were struggling and made math time less stressful for everyone. Easy to understand instruction and fit in perfectly!” –Gabriela T. (Dollar Up)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Wow — so much in this packet for the price. The content is terrific and a clear, excellent way to teach dollar-up strategies along with a variety of ways to interact with the materials.” — Christine K. (Dollar-Up)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I loved this resource. It reinforces what we are doing in class. My students loved doing this and are able to work on this independently. ” — Andrea W. (Diner Menu Math)
Grab this functional money skills bundle while the flash sale is on, and give your students everything they need to step into their communities — and order their own lunch — with confidence. 🛒
© Christine Reeve
This product is copyrighted to Autism Classroom Resources–Christine Reeve for use in one classroom. They may not be copied for additional classes without purchasing extra licenses.
