These fun games can teach your kids about money
Online games that teach kids finance are both educational and fun and they are FREE. Mastering financial literacy is important for future success. Online finance and money games provide a fun and educational option to do so for all ages. Money isn’t a game, except when it is.
Learning about money can be pretty boring. Budgets? Piggy banks? Lame.
But there’s good news: Finance and money games can be fun, at any age.
Online platforms offer gamified instruction to anyone, anywhere. They’re entertaining. They’re interactive. And, most importantly, they’re educational.
We liked to play some cashier, crypto and NFT games, and it was alot of thinking and math included and that can be fun and also good for your kids, very educational. So here are a few games that we played:
CASH BACK
Cash Back is a game where players give customers the correct change using bills and coins.Choose to watch the tutorial or jump straight into play.
- Select the settings you wish to play including difficulty level (easy, medium, or hard), hints, and if you want to show the change amount.
- Select the bills and coins needed to correctly sum to the customer's change amount.
- Tap on the Give Change button.
- Answer as many questions correctly as you can until you run out of time.
- You can answer questions with various different money combinations so long as the final sum total precisely matches the change due.
Bitcoin Tap Tap Mine is an idle clicker game where players collect Bitcoin and use them to upgrade their Bitcoin mining.Tap anywhere on the screen to mine Bitcoin.
- Use your Bitcoin earnings to improve your hardware, hashing algorithms, electricity costs, and mining pools.
- Each time you upgrade any aspect of your mining operation you increase your Bitcoin production rate.
- Collect random gifts, achieve daily goals & spin the wheel for a chance to win.
- This game can be used as an introduction to fiat currency, to explain how Cryptocurrencies work, discuss the nature of money, the growing power of computing over our economic systems, and how currencies fluctuate in value.
- This game can also be used to introduce the original Bitcoin whitepaper, mention the 2008-2009 Great Recession that inspired the creation of Bitcoin, and the nature of financial crisis throughout human history.
- Select any large moving NFT picture to earn a big bonus.
- Use your NFT earnings to upgrade your website, artist, forum, social media marketing, and video ads using the buttons at the bottom center of the screen.
- Use the button in the lower right of the large picture to cycle between buying a single upgrade at a time, 10, 100, or whatever maximum you can afford with your current savings.
- Regularly click on NFTs to charge up the multiple meter at the top center of the screen to earn double or triple your normal earnings.
- Purchase the upgrades on the left side of the screen to double or quadruple your earnings from various aspects of your NFT business.
- This game can be used to discuss the roll of the state and central banks in money, speculative excesses in markets, historical financial bubbles going back to the Dutch tulip craze, the markers of bubbles, and how perception of value and price movement trends impact speculative demand in financial markets.
SUPERMARKET NUMBERS
- Early in the game most blocks are addition blocks. If a block does not have a symbol on it the default numerical operator is addition.
- Select blocks trying to add up to the numerical goal shown.
- As you advance through the game additional blocks are added with functions like subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- You must select at least one block with no operator on it before you can select a multiplication or division block.
- As you select blocks the equation shown below the goal number changes to reflect your choices.
- Fill the shopping cart meter to 100% to move on to the next stage & play through all 10 levels.
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