Product Description
Help your students build essential real-world money skills with this grocery store math activity designed for life skills and special education classrooms.
With this resource, students will practice practical shopping skills like counting money, using the next dollar up strategy, calculating discounts, applying coupons, writing checks, and more—everything they need to navigate a real grocery store with confidence.
Since grocery shopping is one of the most common and necessary life skills, this activity focuses on helping students:
✔ Determine if they have enough money for their purchase
✔ Find and understand prices in the store
✔ Read sales flyers, including expiration dates and purchase limits
✔ Apply discounts and use coupons effectively
✔ Multiply and add prices to get a total
✔ Practice writing checks for payment
This Grocery Store Math pack includes 174 pages of grocery shopping activities!
- A grocery store with dairy, bakery, meat counter, dry goods, and frozen food areas with prices
- 5 worksheets with pictures for finding prices of single items in the store
- 84 task cards for multiplying prices of multiple items from the grocery store (e.g., 3 pears)
- A 3-page sale flyer for Pete’s Grocery Store
- 3 worksheets focusing on functional reading skills in flyers (with and without word banks)
- 30 coupons including discounts and buy-one-get-one-free (BOGO) offers
- 128 task cards for calculating and answering questions about using the coupons
- A file folder activity for using coupons
- 10 worksheets with 2 or 3 items to find in the price in the store, the sale price and any relevant coupons and then add the total. Using the total, students will write a check and subtract the amount from a checking account balance.
- 10 worksheets using the same items of the worksheets above, students will circle the bill combinations they can use to make the purchase and make change from a total given to the clerk.
- 15 worksheets that include 6-10 item shopping lists. Students can find the prices in the store, add any applicable sale flyer prices and coupons and find the total.
- 1 blank shopping list that you can fill in for the students to determine prices from the store, flyers and coupons. Students can also use this on their own to plan shopping trips.
- Blank sheet of checks and registers for use with the shopping lists.
- A visual set of directions for completing the shopping list worksheets.
- Answer keys for worksheets
Students can also use the shopping list format to make a list for community-based trips and plan purchases before visiting the store. While not all students will be able to make change, many students can still make purchases at the grocery store by using grocery store math and the next dollar strategy. Next dollar strategies can be practiced on the worksheets in which the students identify what bill combinations they need to make the purchases listed.
Give your students the hands-on experience they need to successfully handle grocery store math and shop independently!
© 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.
