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.