Last week my Year 8 groups and my Year 5 group were using play money. Money is good to use because it relates to real life. Everyone of my students has had experience at some point of handling money and buying or selling goods in exchange for money.
My year 5's role played 'Shop Keepers'. They took turns being a shop keeper and had to sell an item to a customer. The problem for them in this challenge was working out how much change to give back i.e. if a drink cost $3.80 and they were given a $10 note, how much change do they give back? This involves using knowledge of place value, counting, addition, subtraction, parts of a whole (fractions) and decimals
My year 8's were first asked to count the pile of money put in front of them then they were asked to use money to solve addition and subtraction story problems involving money.
Here are a couple of photos of one of my year 8 groups engaged in using their money to solve a problem.
My year 5 students (below) playing 'Shopkeepers'
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