Profit
Also known as: What You Keep
Profit is the money left after a business pays for everything it used.
Mia collected five dollars from selling lemonade. She spent two dollars on lemons and cups.
She cannot keep all five dollars. Two dollars pay for what the stand used. Three dollars stay.
That three dollars is profit.
Color this: draw five coins in a row. Color the two that pay for lemons and cups. Use a different color for the three Mia gets to keep.
Try the full five-coin profit activity when you want the child to move the money and change the numbers.
For the grown-up holding the crayon box:
The five dollars collected is revenue. The three dollars left is profit. Keeping those words attached to two different piles helps a child learn the adult terms without losing the simple picture.