Working out change

Working out change

Pencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about getting change after buying something.
When you go to the dairy to buy things sometimes you are given change. 
You will be given some plastic money to help you work out the change you would get if you bought each of the following things.

Question 1Change answer

Write how much change you would get on the table.
  What you buy Money you give Change you get
a)
peanut butter
$2.00
 
$5.00
 
b)
ice cream cone
$1.50
 
$2.00
 
c)
chocolate bar
$3.20
 
$4.00
 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with auto marking displayed to students). Other equipment is also required.
 
Equipment:
Plastic coins and paper notes of all denominations up to $10; pen or pencil.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
money, subtraction
Description of task: 
Students work out the change from given amounts of money for different purchases.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' ability to use basic facts and knowledge of place value and partitioning whole numbers to solve subtraction problems.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Additive thinking, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 
a) $3.00
b) 50c
c) 80c