Money can be a very motivating teaching tool for children. Not only can you work on addition and subtraction but also multiplication and division. For beginners you can work with the costs of items and whether the students have enough money to purchase what they like. In more advanced scenarios, you can add sales tax or multiples of single items. To take it even further, you can make an earnings schedule for the child and have them figure out how long it will take them to save enough money for a particular high-priced item. Working with budgets, you can teach the children how much things cost as well as how to calculate monthly earnings and expenditures.
Boxes and other containers can be a good way to teach students about volume. With recipes you can work with kids on volume in determining whether bowls or pans are big enough for all the ingredients that need to be mixed. With boxes you can offer an array of things and have the student determine the minimum sized box required to fit all the items. This helps the kids with the logic of size as well as calculating total volumes. Sometimes by volume a box might be large enough but if an item is a particular length it might not fit in the smallest box with the right volume.
Percentages and statistics can be used everywhere. You can break down rooms of people or shelves of items a number of different ways. This teaches children how to break down groups of information into useful formats. You can work everything from percentage of people wearing a green shirt to tracking the latest statistics of a successful pitcher on a baseball team. You can challenge students to figure out which pitcher has the best record in a series of four games and then see how those numbers change in the next four games.
Distance calculation can be a fun way to teach math during a road trip. Working with your student, you can have them help plan a trip. You can choose the fastest route or discover the time difference if you want to stop to see something not on the straightest course. Kids can also help determine where the stops should be for the night. This includes figuring out not only distance, but average speed and the amount of time it should take to get from place to place. In so doing, you can add money activities in the event by working on budgeting for the trip and the number of days it will take as well as the expected use of fuel.