How Much Do You Make? How Much Do You Get to Keep?

How Much Do You Make? How Much Do You Get to Keep? is a Grade 6 money activity that uses salaries to practice rates, division, estimation, and percent. Students mentally break annual salaries into monthly, weekly, and daily amounts, beginning with friendly values and then estimating less convenient ones. The activity later adds a tax percentage so students also consider how gross income and money kept are different.

Use it as a whole-class mental-math discussion when students are studying rates, percents, or financial literacy. Comparing estimation strategies is especially useful when a salary does not divide neatly by 12 or 52. Create a free Find a Math Game account to generate teacher-ready lesson support for How Much Do You Make? How Much Do You Get to Keep? No credit card and 3 lifetime lesson generations.