Teaching the Next Dollar Up Strategy for How to Make Change - Free Printable

Let’s solve the problem step by step.

We are looking at a worksheet that teaches “Next Dollar Up” — a strategy to help students figure out how many whole dollars they need to pay for something, even if the price has cents.

The top part of the worksheet shows:
- Four $1 bills (so total = $4)
- The text says: “I have... I can buy something priced....”
- Then there are three price options: $8.23, $6.23, and $7.55 (partially covered, but we can see it’s $7.55)

Wait — actually, let’s look again.

The student has four $1 bills → that’s $4 total.

But none of the prices listed ($8.23, $6.23, $7.55) are less than or equal to $4. That doesn’t make sense unless… maybe the image is showing an example where the student *doesn’t* have enough? Or perhaps this is just illustrating the concept?

Actually, looking more carefully — the green clip is covering part of the third option. It looks like the third box says “$7.55”, and the clip is on that one. But why?

Wait — perhaps the task is: given the money shown (four $1 bills = $4), which item can you buy? But none of those prices are under $4.

That suggests maybe the image is not asking us to pick from those boxes based on the $4 — instead, it might be teaching the “next dollar up” method using those prices as examples.

Let me re-read the main title: “NEXT DOLLAR UP — How It Can Help Your Students”

And below, there are smaller cards with items and prices:

1. Plant: $1.20 → circle number of dollars needed to buy → answer should be 2 (because next dollar up from $1.20 is $2)
2. Jeans: $8.25 → next dollar up is $9
3. Fan: $6.59 → next dollar up is $7

Also, in the top section, the student has $4, and the prices shown are $8.23, $6.23, $7.55 — all higher than $4. So maybe that’s just an illustration that you can’t buy those with $4 — but the real task is in the bottom cards.

Since the user didn’t specify which exact problem to solve, but the image contains multiple examples, I’ll assume the most straightforward one to demonstrate “next dollar up”.

Let’s take the plant: priced at $1.20

Step-by-step:

- The price is $1.20
- You don’t have exact change — you’re using only whole dollars
- To cover $1.20, you need more than $1
- The next whole dollar after $1.20 is $2
- So you need 2 dollars

Similarly, for jeans at $8.25:
- More than $8, so next dollar is $9 → need 9 dollars

For fan at $6.59:
- More than $6, so next dollar is $7 → need 7 dollars

Now, since the question isn’t explicitly stated, but the image is about “next dollar up”, and the most common type of question here is: “How many whole dollars do you need to buy this item?”

I’ll pick one clear example from the bottom: the plant at $1.20

Final Answer:
2