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Money – calculating change

I bought an item at the shop and got 35c change. What did I buy and how much did it cost?

 

Provide time for students to work in partners and try to solve.

Discuss: What strategies did you use to solve this? What challenges did you face?

Enabling: Use plastic money to help solve.

  1. I got 10c change.

  2. I got 5c change.

Extending:

1. How many different solution could there be?

2. I got 75 cents change.

 

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