Sharpening Money Skills at Harry Sayers Elementary

Grade 4 students at Harry Sayers Elementary turned their classroom into a lively marketplace as they worked on sharpening their money skills.

With pretend coins and paper bills in hand, the students set up small shops selling various items in their classroom dollar store. They practised adding and subtracting in cents, making change, and figuring out exactly how much they could spend. Throughout the room, kids helped each other calculate costs and gave each other change with big smiles and lots of laughter.

The hands-on lesson made cents and dollars come alive, and made math feel fun, practical, and connected to real life