Remember: Your values are what matter to you, and your money plan can show them. Ask: do my coins match what I care about?
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Leo's and Maya's jarsEvery Saturday in Pennyfield, Leo and Maya each get ten coins, the very same ten. "What matters most to you?" asks Grandpa. What you care about a lot is called a value. Leo thinks of clay, time with friends and a trip. Maya thinks of painting, friends and saving up. Their lists are different, and that is fine. Leo sets out three jars: four coins for clay, three for a gift for a friend and three for the trip. Maya fills her jars too: two coins for painting, three for friends and five for saving. Same ten coins, two different plans, and neither plan is right for everybody. A money plan shows what matters to a person. One week Maya spends eight coins on sweets and none on painting. Sweets are okay, and wanting a treat is normal. But painting matters most to her, so she asks, "Do my coins match what I care about?" She notices without feeling bad and changes her plan. The next week four coins go to painting and two to treats. Months later Leo cares even more about his trip, so his plan changes too.
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Look at Leo's three jars: 4 + 3 + 3 = coins, all of his ten.
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Look at Maya's plan. Which jar holds the fewest coins?
PaintingFriendsSaving
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Join each word to what it means.
1Value
2Money plan
3Mismatch
Asomething you care about a lot
Bcoins not going where your words say
Cshows what matters to a person
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Leo and Maya have the same ten coins but different plans. What is true?
Only Leo's plan is rightEach plan fits what its child cares aboutBoth must copy the same plan
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Maya had 10 coins and spent 8 on sweets. That left coins.
Do the coins match?
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Circle every one where the coins match what the child cares about.
Leo saves for a trip and puts 3 coins in the trip jarMaya says painting matters most, but spends 8 coins on sweets and none on paintingA child who loves friends sets 3 coins aside for a giftLeo cares about his trip and spends every coin on treats
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Number what Maya does when her coins do not match.
Maya spends eight coins on sweets and none on painting
She changes her plan for the next week
She notices it does not match, without feeling bad
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Look at the table. In the week after the slip, Maya puts 4 coins in painting and coins in treats.
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Values can change as you grow, so a money plan can change too.
TrueFalse
Fix it and think
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Maya says: sweets are bad, and I should feel awful about my coins. Is Maya right?
YesNo
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Suppose Leo moves 1 coin from his gift jar to his trip jar. The trip jar then holds 3 + 1 = coins.
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Write two things you care about most. Then write where a coin could go for each.
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Draw three jars for your own ten coins and label what each jar is for.
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Answer key · Set A
Money and your values
110 4 + 3 = 7, and 7 + 3 = 10 coins.
2Painting Painting has 2 coins, friends 3 and saving 5.
31-A, 2-C, 3-B A value is what you care about, a money plan shows it, and a mismatch is when coins go somewhere else.
4Each plan fits what its child cares about Neither plan is right for everybody. Each fits what its child cares about most.
52 10 − 8 = 2 coins.
6Leo saves for a trip and puts 3 coins in the trip jar, A child who loves friends sets 3 coins aside for a gift Coins in the trip jar match caring about the trip, and a gift matches caring about friends. The other two go somewhere the child does not care about most.
71, 3, 2 She spends, she notices and asks if her coins match, and then she simply changes her plan.
82 The next week four coins go to painting and two to treats.
9True Months later Leo cared even more about his trip, so his plan changed with it. Plans can bend as you grow.
10No Sweets are okay and wanting a treat is normal. Maya noticed without feeling bad and simply changed her plan.
114 The trip jar had 3 coins, and 3 + 1 = 4 coins. Plans can bend when what matters changes.
12Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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