The big ideaA match is extra pay: the boss adds coins to your jar when you add yours.
How it works
Oba the boss pinned up a notice: "Add a coin, I add one, up to two a pay day." That is a match.
A match is extra pay. It follows the coins you add yourself, up to a cap. Add nothing, and no match comes.
A match helps keep good workers and helps them save, so everybody gains a little.
Real matches come with rules, like how long a worker must stay. A grown-up can explain the ones near you.
Ezra's pay day.Four friends, four jars.
Example 1: Dara's pay day
Dara adds 2 coins and Oba adds 2.
2 + 2 = 4.
Dara's jar grows by 4 coins.
Example 2: Ezra and the cap
Ezra adds 4 coins.
Oba's match stops at 2.
4 + 2 = 6 coins go in: four his and two Oba's.
Example 3: Twelve pay days
Dara adds 2 each pay day for 12 pay days: 2 × 12 = 24.
Oba adds 24 too.
24 + 24 = 48 coins in all.
Example 4: Fen's pay day
Fen adds 1 and Oba adds 1.
1 + 1 = 2.
Two coins go in.
Words to know
match
Extra coins the boss adds when you add yours.
cap
The most the boss will add each pay day.
pay day
When workers add to their jars.
later jar
A jar with a lock, kept for later.
Watch out
A match is not a gift: it only comes when you add your own coins first.
A match is not a loan. The boss does not want it back.
The cap matters: Oba matched only up to two coins.
People call a match free money, but it is part of the pay.
Try it
Fen adds 1 coin and Oba matches up to 2. How many coins go in?
Ezra adds 4 and Oba matches up to 2. How many go in?
Gil adds nothing. How much does Oba add?
Dara adds 2 and Oba adds 2 on each of 12 pay days. How many coins in all?
Answers: 1. 2 · 2. 6 · 3. Nothing · 4. 48
Try at homeAsk a grown-up if any boss they know adds to a savings jar, and what a worker has to do to get it.
For grown-upsAsk a grown-up if any boss they know adds to a savings jar, and what a worker has to do to get it. The garden center is made up: this is how the idea works, not advice.
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