Australian Money Menu Fun Grade 3
Australian money activities that make real-world maths meaningful — using menus students actually want to read.
This Australian Money Menu Fun resource is an engaging and authentic printable maths activity for Australian primary school students in Year 3. Students use a colourful restaurant-style menu to practise counting Australian coins and notes, calculating totals, finding change and making purchasing decisions — turning what can be a dry topic into something genuinely motivating. Because maths sticks better when students can see exactly when they'd use it.
Aligned to the Australian Curriculum Mathematics strand (Number and Algebra — Money and Financial Mathematics) and available as a no-prep instant download.
Why teachers love it:
- Authentic Australian context — uses Australian coins and notes, not generic currency
- Real-world application — menu format makes money maths immediately relevant
- Multiple skills in one — covers counting money, totals, change and decision-making
- Zero prep — instant download, print and go
Perfect for:
- Year 3 Australian primary classrooms
- Australian money and financial maths lessons
- Australian Curriculum Mathematics — Money and Financial Mathematics
- Maths rotations, real-world problem solving and authentic assessment tasks
What's included:
A printable Australian Money Menu activity with student worksheets for calculating costs, totals and change. Designed for individual student use on A4 paper.
Print and go — your money maths lesson is sorted. 🖨️
SPECIFICATIONS
Format: PDF, set up for A4 paper. Exactly what's inside is listed above.
Editing: This download is not editable. The PDF is flattened to protect the design and the artists' work we license.
Printing: Open the file in a PDF reader and choose 'Fit to page' or 'Actual size'. Do a test page on plain paper first — card, colour and black-and-white all print well.
Licence: One classroom, one teacher. Please don't share, resell or post the file online; buy an extra licence for each colleague who wants their own copy.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
You'll need a PDF reader on your device — the free Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most reliable. Double-click the downloaded file to open it.
If a page shows on screen but won't print properly, open it in Acrobat Reader, choose Print → Advanced → tick 'Print as image'.
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It came as a ZIP file — how do I open it?
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Can I print in colour or black and white?
Yes. Our resources are designed to work both ways; black-and-white versions look great on coloured card.
The download won't start on my school computer.
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