Grade 4 · The Planning Year · Week 13

Write the Plan Down

The plan column. Filled in before the week starts, and not touched afterward.

This game goes with week 13 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

Fill in the plan column

snacks: $2.50

presents: $3.25

saving: $1.75

Altogether$ The practice plan from page 1, one week (snacks $2.00, comics $2.00, presents $3.00, saving $2.00)$

Write a plan column

Start from the practice plan, or change it into your own. The total keeps itself.

Altogether $9.00

It adds to exactly $9.00, which is what comes in each week. The challenge: make it add to exactly $7.50 with every amount ending in 25, 50 or 75 cents.

The workbook: The Planning Year (free PDF). The teacher guide: answers and watch-fors.

Other weeks with a game: 14 Plan and Actual, Side by Side, 15 The Difference Column, 22 Small and Often, 25 Money Coming In, 29 How Big Should It Be?, 30 A Whole Month of Both Columns, 31 Where Did It Go?, 32 Was the Plan Right?. All games.