Math

Students received all their materials in their Enrichment Packet!

Materials:

· Three pages of menus (Breakfast and Hot Meals with sides and drinks) laminated so that you can create your own menu prices

· Two laminated order forms to use and reuse

· Two examples of budget cards and several index cards to create your own budget cards

· 1 dry erase marker

· 1 dry erase felt square


Budget Your Money Menu Game

Learning Objectives:

· Students will be able to use a menu to fulfill a need. (What food they want to order.)

· Students may have to make choices and practice Opportunity Cost, which is making the best desired choice between two items.

· Students will be able to determine their budget for the meal by selecting a budget card. (Created on index cards.)

· Students will use addition to determine the total cost of their order.

· Students will use subtraction to determine if they stayed within their budget.

· Students will have to use speaking and listening skills to place an order as the consumer and/or take an order as the employee.

· Students will be able to enter prices for each menu item based upon their ability level. For example, students in kindergarten may want to start with pricing items by the dollar (hamburger $5, cheese pizza $4, sides $1). As students advance in their addition and money skills, the prices could include cents (hamburger $4.25, cheese pizza $3.50, sides $0.70). This will allow students to practice adding and subtracting different dollar amounts. Students could add options of toppings and their prices to the menu for the hamburger (cheese, bacon, avocadoes, mushrooms, etc.) and to the pizza (sausage, pepperoni, veggies, etc.).



Extension:

· Students can create their own menus for their own restaurant or café. They can determine the items they would like to sell and the cost of each menu item. Students can draw the pictures or search for images on the internet or in a magazine.

· Students can create their own store and determine what they would like to sell (clothing store, dollar store, candy store, pet store, etc.). Students can draw the pictures or search for images on the internet or in a magazine.