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Kindergarten Mathematics Personal Finance Literacy

Understandings:

  • Students should understand and identify ways to earn income. Having a job, work performed to complete a task, usually for money, or a sale of goods or property (items), are both ways students could identify ways to earn income. (K.9) A
  • Students should understand the difference between receiving money as income for work done or selling items and receiving money as a gift which is not earned. (K.9) B
  • Students must be able to list simple skills required for a job, work performed to complete a task, usually for money. Skills required for jobs may include education or knowledge skills and physical skills to complete a job. The skills a nurse may need to complete their job may include the ability to read charts and reports, measure medicine, recognize symptoms, communicate to patients and families, etc. Physical skills may be required of jobs such as a construction worker needing to carry heavy supplies, work with heavy machinery, drive, measure materials, etc. (K.9) C
  • Students must understand and recognize that people have basic needs (food, water, shelter, clothing, etc.) and wants (toys, games, entertainment, treats, etc.). People use the income they earn to buy the things they want and need. K.9(C)
Embedded Throughout Unit:
  • Students should be able to count to 20 and back from 20 with and without the use of objects. If students are using one-to-one correspondence where each object counted is matched accurately with a number word in correct sequence, students should be able to accurately recite the number they are counting. Students would gradually be able to recite the numbers to and from 20 without the use of objects. (K.2) A
  • Students must be able to name the number of objects in a set without counting but rather by instantly identifying the arrangement of objects. This instant recognition of a quantity is called subitizing. Everyday common objects such as the pips on dominoes or dice are helpful for students to understand this concept. Objects that come in groups of 2, 4, 5, and 10 are easiest for students to form a mental picture of first such as shoes, socks, fingers, toes, etc. (K.2) D
  • Students should be able to recite numbers as it relates to counting forward by ones and tens from any number between 1 and 100.(K.5) A
TEKS:
  • K.9(A)(S) Identify ways to earn income.
  • K.9(B)(S) Differentiate between money received as income and money received as gifts.
  • K.9(C)(S) List simple skills required for jobs.
  • K.9(D)(S) Distinguish between wants and needs and identify income as a source to meet one's wants and needs.
TEKS Embedded Throughout Unit:
  • K.2(A)(S) Count forward and backward to at least 20 with and without objects
  • K.2(D)(S) Recognize instantly the quantity of a small group of objects in organized and random arrangements
  • K.5(A)(S) Recite numbers up to at least 100 by ones and tens beginning at any given number
Learning Targets:
  • I can name ways to earn money
  • I can describe the difference between money received as a gift and money earned
  • I can list simple skills for jobs
  • I can name items that are "wants" and "needs"
  • I can rote count numbers 0-100
  • I can rote count backwards 20-0
  • I can recite numbers by ones and tens to 100
  • I can recognize instantly the quantity of a small group of objects up to 10 objects
Essential Questions:
  • How can money be earned?
  • How is earning your own money (income) beneficial to you?
  • What is the difference between a want and a need?
  • What is the difference between income and a gift?
  • What are some skills required for jobs?
  • What is the difference between goods and services?