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Learning to calculate sums and differences using money can be tricky and challenging. Kid Scoop makes this challenge fun by visiting Planet Moola with aliens Zeekor and Stasko who must use “zinks” for all purchases. Zinks come in different shapes, sizes, colors, and amounts. Your space mission is to help budget and calculate purchases Zeekor and Stasko would like to make. Will they have enough zinks to buy new space boots, food for Fralpar, supply station snacks, or a new Super Nova Ultra spaceship? They’ll surely need your help to succeed. By the time you board your return flight to Earth, you’ll have mastered skip counting and thinking in zinks!
In this issue young space explorers will:
- add and subtract using various money amounts
- count by 5’s, 10’s, 25’s, 50’s and 100’s
- solve money-based word problems
- locate matching “schneekflet” banks
- help Zeekor buy tasty outer space treats
- purchase a new space ship in installments
- use the newspaper to locate examples of wants vs. needs
- evaluate charitable activities in the press
- write an opinion piece analyzing the value of a piggy bank
6 page PDF
