Can I Afford It? Jewelry Store Making a Purchase Task Cards | Life Skills Money Math for Special Education

Description

Teach your students how to make real-world money decisions with these engaging, differentiated Jewelry Store Making a Purchase Task Cards! In this activity, students are given an amount of money and must decide which items they can afford to buy, building real-life functional math skills that prepare them for independence.

Perfect for special education, autism classrooms, and life skills programs, these task cards help students practice identifying coins and bills, reading price tags, comparing costs, and making choices—just like they would in an actual store!

🧩 What’s Included

You’ll receive both printable PDFs and digital Boom Cards, so you can easily differentiate and use them in any classroom setting.

📄 PRINTABLE PDF TASK CARDS
(4 differentiated levels | About 20 cards per level = 80 total task cards!)

• Level 1: Match items to coin amounts (with visual coin pictures)

• Level 2: Match items to bill amounts (with visual bill pictures)

• Level 3: Match items to small numerical amounts (e.g., $3.25)

• Level 4: Match items to larger numerical amounts (e.g., $17.50)

💻 DIGITAL BOOM CARDS
Each level includes its own separate deck for easy assignment to individual students.

• Self-correcting, interactive, and great for student independence

• Provides instant feedback for students and data tracking for teachers (with a paid Boom subscription)

• Accessible from Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, and tablets

🎯 Skills Students Will Practice

• Identifying coins and bills

• Matching money to item prices

• Comparing prices and determining affordability

• Understanding spending, saving, and budgeting concepts

• Practicing decision-making and real-world math

• Strengthening functional life skills and independence

🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• ✅ Differentiated across 4 levels to meet diverse learner needs

• ✅ Works for independent work systems, small groups, centers, or direct instruction

• ✅ Printable + Digital options provide flexibility for classroom or virtual learning

• ✅ No prep required — just print, laminate (optional), and go!

• ✅ Ideal for IEP goals related to money skills, math reasoning, or independent functioning

• ✅ Students are motivated by real-life visuals and functional, meaningful activities

🏫 Perfect For

• Special Education and Autism Classrooms

• Functional Life Skills Math Programs

• Independent Work Task Boxes or Binders

• Centers, Stations, and Small Group Lessons

• Transition or Secondary SPED Programs

• Distance Learning or Home Instruction

💡 Teacher Tip

Use these task cards alongside real coins, play money, or classroom store setups to extend learning into hands-on functional lessons!

🛍️ Looking to Save?

Grab the Money Counting Task Cards BUNDLE to access 20+ themed sets covering skills like counting coins, bills, comparing prices, making change, and more—perfect for your entire school year of functional math instruction!

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What are Boom Cards?

Boom Cards are digital task cards that you can play on the Boom Learning website. Boom Cards are accessible from ANY device with an internet connection including: laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, android tablets, Kin

dle Fire tablets, interactive whiteboards, and even your smart phone!

Why do we love them?

• Easy to access, engaging, and interactive
• Self-correcting
• Auditory and visual feedback
• No prep! That means… NO laminating, NO cutting, NO gluing, and NO Velcro!
• Data tracking (with paid subscription)
• Easier to use than digital PDF files

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