Money games are a great way to make maths fun, whether you are setting up a pretend shop or playing a traditional card game. Our equipment will assist your students in learning the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, place value, and more. What’s more, they will have a great time while they learn!
For fun and engaging games, try our Australian Money Bags and the 50 Money Activity Cards.
The Australian Money Bags is a light-hearted board game and requires players to earn the most money to win. The 50 Activity Cards includes 50 colourful and visual ways to teach mathematics using play money. This means that teachers will not run out of ideas to use the play money at its full potential. The topics covered are skip counting, trading, operations, probability, fractions, decimals, percentages, and more.
For fun ideas to use play money, shop the Problem Solving Money Puzzles, Mathematics and Money, and Pocket Dice books by Dr Paul Swan.
The Calculator Cash Register and My Classroom Shop kit are ideal for getting up a fun and engaging pretend classroom shop. Use our My Shop Poster for a real shop experience. Children can be pretend sellers and customers to sell and purchase goods. Upper primary school students can add discounts to their ‘products’ which encourages using fractions and place value.
In a group, try mixing all different kinds of coins into separate piles for each player. On three, every player must sort their coins into piles based on the currency and colour. The first person to finish sorting is the winner.