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Money Play: Thinking Games for Curious Kids About Money, Value, and How the World Decides What Things Are Worth
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Series: The Think & Choose, Book 6
Activity & Coloring BooksConceptsGeneral Juvenile Nonfiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Money Play gives curious kids ages 8-12 200 structured money questions and situations to think through. Everyday choices about buying, saving, prices, work, taxes, debt, and wealth become starting points for bigger questions about value, fairness, responsibility, power, and the systems around us.
Five thinking tools guide the book:
- Fairness asks whether a decision still seems fair when you change sides.
- Consistency asks whether you are using the same standard in similar situations.
- Perspective asks what the situation looks like from other points of view, including people who are affected but are not in the room.
- Consequence asks what happens when one choice becomes a rule or a pattern.
- Revision asks what evidence would make you change your mind.
Across five chapters, children move from what things are worth to how prices work, then to who gets to make money decisions, what we owe each other, and what enough means. Along the way they encounter questions involving sunk costs, changing prices, wages, taxes, inheritance, markets, debt, inequality, and competing claims of fairness.
Five Think Labs provide longer exercises, and The Ultimate Money Think Challenge brings all five tools together in one extended investigation.
The prompts can be used independently, with a parent or sibling, around the family table, in homeschool learning, or as discussion material in a classroom or small group. Some questions are personal. Others are about systems. Many have no single obvious answer.
The aim is to help children give reasons, notice assumptions, consider other perspectives, examine consequences, and stay willing to revise a view when new information matters.
Money Play is for children who see a price tag and ask the more interesting question: why?
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