Students can practice functional reading and math skills using fast food menus! This particular resource focuses on subtraction: starting with a budget and subtracting items to determine how much money is left over.

The resource uses real photos, is differentiated, and includes a fill-in-your-own menu and worksheets based on local fast food restaurants in your area to further generalize the skill.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Resource Guide

• About the Resource
• Using the Resource
• Resource Walkthrough

Subtraction Worksheets

• 42 worksheets
• 5 levels (the last one being a fill-in-your-own/use a real-life fast food restaurant menu)
• 6 problems per page
• 10 pages per level for levels 1-4, 2 different pages for level 5
• Visuals of the fast food items are a part of each subtraction problem set

Fast Food Menus

• 3 created menus
• Whole numbers, decimals, closer to real life, and fill in your own/blank

Answer Key + Data Collection Sheet

• For 4 levels, plus blank for the 5th level
• Collect data across multiple data points as students work through the worksheets

IDEAS FOR USE

You can use this resource in a multitude of ways:

• Life skills math lessons
• Small groups, centers/stations
• 1:1 to independent work
• In person to packets to send home
• Warm-up, exit ticket, early finishers, morning work
• IEP goals on financial literacy, money math, functional math, functional reading (reading menus and applying prices)

ACROSS AGES AND SUPPORT NEEDS

Can be used with students across support needs and abilities. We've included differentiated levels based on whole numbers to decimals as well as visuals to represent each fast food item.

PROMOTING NEURODIVERSITY + FUTURE-FOCUSED WORK

We want to support you in creating a future-focused classroom where students are more prepared for life after high school. The resource supports students around independent living goals and life skills goals.

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