Your child picks two real products to compare and builds their own rubric to figure out which one is actually worth buying. They do cost-per-use math, spot marketing tricks, handle a real-world curveball, and write a recommendation they can defend. The habit of stopping and thinking before spending money.
Ages 9–14 · Project guide · 3 skill levels
Your child compares two real products and builds their own rubric to judge them. Cost per use, hidden costs, needs against wants. Then they spot the marketing tactics being used on them, and write a recommendation they have to defend.
When maths lives in real money, real measurements, and real decisions, it stops being a worksheet and becomes a tool. A kid who uses it to get something they actually want remembers it for life, and they did it with you. That is the moment "I taught my kid something real" starts to feel possible.
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Designed by a teacher with 15 years of classroom experience, now homeschooling her own kids.
