Paycheck & Banking Skills for Teens
Grocery Math Vol. 2: the money skills a first paycheck needs. Students read a rendered Valley Market paystub (gross, taxes, net, and which number is yours to spend), learn three plain-language debit card rules, run six real checkouts priced with the exact Year 1 Grocery Math prices, walk a photographed six-step safe ATM sequence, then sort 24 needs-versus-wants cards and build a budget on the paystub's own net pay, savings first. Two levels on every page, a computed answer key, a data sheet, and three copy-paste IEP goals.
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Your first paycheck comes with numbers nobody taught you to read: gross, taxes, net, and the one that is actually yours to spend. Grocery Math Vol. 2 teaches exactly that. Students read a rendered Valley Market paystub and learn why net is smaller than gross and why that is normal, not a mistake. The debit card unit teaches three plain-language rules, PIN is a secret, tap or insert and wait, declined is not broken, then runs six real checkouts priced with the exact Valley Market prices from the Year 1 Grocery Math pack, so students meet numbers they already know. The ATM sequence is six photographed steps with the safety habits built in, and the budget builder runs on the paystub's own net pay in the taught order: savings first, then needs, and wants get what is left. Every money answer is computed in code and printed on the teacher key, so the worksheets and the key cannot disagree.
What is included
- A rendered Valley Market paystub lesson plus four practice stubs with varied hours and rates, every gross, tax, and net computed
- Debit card basics: the card anatomy on a safely fictional card, three plain-language rules, and six checkout scenarios at real Year 1 prices
- Balance math at Level 2: start balance minus the total, four whole-cent problems
- The safe ATM sequence: six photographed steps, a safety card, check questions, and a cut-out pocket card
- A 24-card needs-versus-wants sort with savings taught as a need, plus a budget builder with two worked examples, a blank, and My Money Plan
- A teacher guide with two levels, three copy-paste IEP goals, a computed answer key, a reusable data sheet, and US Letter plus A4 files
Formats, license and delivery
- Formats
- Print-ready PDF, US Letter and A4. Everything prints clean in black and white; color adds the accent only.
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- Licensed for personal and single-classroom use by the purchaser. For another classroom or teacher, please add a license for each.
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Questions from teachers
- Who are these paycheck and banking worksheets for?
- Teachers and families of teens and young adults in life skills, transition, and vocational programs. Every page is a real first-job money moment, a paystub, a checkout, an ATM, a payday budget, written at a secondary reading level without childish framing.
- How does this connect to Grocery Store Math?
- It is Grocery Math Vol. 2. The checkout scenarios price their items with the exact Valley Market prices from the Year 1 pack, imported from the same source data, so students meet numbers they already know and the two packs can never disagree. Each pack still stands alone.
- Is the debit card on the pages a real card design?
- No, and deliberately so. The practice card is a fictional Valley Bank card whose number starts with 0000, matches no real card network, and fails the checksum real cards use, which automated tests enforce. Students learn the anatomy without a real-looking number anywhere in the pack.
- How do the two levels work?
- Level 1 circles or sorts from printed choices. Level 2 writes or computes, checking hours times rate against gross and working start balance minus total. The budget builder is the capstone: savings first, then needs, and wants get what is left.
- Is there an answer key?
- Yes, a computed one. Every answer in the key is produced by the same code that builds the worksheets, checked by automated tests against the source content, so the key and the pages cannot drift apart.
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