Teachers notes

uki145a-uki145b - Aim to provide more shopping problems involving addition, multiplication and subtraction of money up to £10 and to further familiarise children with the < and > signs. There is space on the activities for the children to record the extra calculations necessary for the completion of the sums. Read the instructions together and talk about the toys on sale, comparing and contrasting prices, before children begin to complete the activities. Pay particular attention to the engine, priced at £2.99. Talk about how close this amount is to £3.00 and discuss with children the common Sales tactic of pricing items just below the next pound.

After completion of the activities it would be useful to get children to collect pictures (and prices) of items for sale from various catalogues. Make a display to illustrate the point of how often prices such as (for example) £2.99, and £3.99 are used. Encourage children to get into the habit of "rounding up" prices to the next pound. This is a much quicker way of calculating change and reinforces the knowledge that prices are almost always fixed to deceive the unwary!

Instructions
Father Fifty is buying some toys.  Calculate the sums and work out how much more and less the toys costs.  When you have finished click on the blue tick to see how well you have done.