I started Real Skills Press for a very personal reason: my 7-year-old. I wanted him to understand how math actually works in real life — not just on a worksheet, but in the world he’s growing up in.
A little about me: I have a bachelor’s in economics and psychology and an MBA, and I’ve spent 15 years in decision support and finance — turning numbers into the decisions businesses run on.
Somewhere between boardroom forecasts and counting coins with my son, it clicked: the skills I use every day — budgeting, pricing, understanding profit, weighing trade-offs — are skills kids can start building right now, through play.
So I built the packs I wished existed: printable adventures where kids run their own lemonade stands and snack shops — pricing menus, making change, tracking sales, graphing profit. Real math, real economics, real personal finance… disguised as the best part of their day.
My mission is simple: empower kids with the economic and financial skills that turn them into confident future entrepreneurs — one lemonade stand at a time.
— Lisa Fasana, Founder
Lisa Fasana
Founder, Real Skills Press
Mom, numbers nerd, Chief Lemonade Officer
Why “real skills”?
Most math worksheets teach kids to get the right answer. Our packs teach them to use the answer — to price a menu so the stand makes money, to count change so the customer comes back, to read a sales graph and decide what to stock next week.
That’s the difference between doing math and thinking with math. And it’s a difference kids feel immediately — because when the numbers are theirs, the learning sticks.
What we promise
- Answer keys included — zero prep for grown-ups.
- Print-friendly — buy once, print forever, for your family or your classroom.
- Screen-free — paper, pencils, and play money math.
- Real-world skills — the money math kids will use their whole lives.
Questions? Ideas for the next pack? Write to [email protected] — we read everything.