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A Day at the Fair

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area
Mathematics
Grade
2

Students manage a budget to spend on games, rides, and snacks at the fair. Each item has a specific cost, and students must decide how to spend their money wisely while keeping track of their purchases. They will apply math skills to plan their purchases, keep track of costs, and stay within budget. In addition, they must choose what coins to use for some of their choices. The activity provides a real-world scenario that engages students in practical money management and reinforces addition and subtraction fluency.

MA Standards

2.MD.C.8
Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies (up to $10), using $ and ยข symbols appropriately and whole dollar amounts. For example, if you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have? If you have $3 and 4 quarters, how many dollars or cents do you have? (Students are not expected to use decimal notation.)
2.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. See Glossary, Table 1

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