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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 12 of 12

Work, Wants & Needs

Earning money, gifts, wants and needs

What your child practices

Personal financial literacy: your child learns that people earn income by working, tells income from gifts, names skills that jobs need, and sorts wants from needs.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.9(A); K.9(B); K.9(C); K.9(D) · ways to earn income, income and gifts, job skills, and wants and needs

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. People earn money, called income, by working at jobs.
  2. Money you get without working, like on a birthday, is a gift.
  3. Needs are things we must have. Wants are nice to have.

Example: Is food a need or a want? We must eat to live and grow. Answer: a need

Work, Wants & Needs in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 12 of 12 in Kindergarten Math, after Coins.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which is a want?

    • food
    • a doctor
    • shoes
    • a bigger TV

  2. Question 2

    Mia walks the neighbor's dog and gets paid. Is it income or a gift?

    • a gift
    • income

  3. Question 3

    What does a cook need to know?

    • how to fix teeth
    • how to drive a bus
    • how to make food
    • how to fly a plane

  4. Question 4

    Is a toy truck a need or a want?

    • a want
    • a need

  5. Question 5

    Which is a want?

    • food
    • a new toy
    • a home
    • water

  6. Question 6

    What should a family buy first?

    • needs
    • wants

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