Money resources

Students calculate the cost of a set of books given unit prices for an individual book.

This practical task involves students making estimates of sets of items and demonstrating their method(s) of estimation.

Students solve problems involving money by finding the total spent and the change from a given amount.

Students use plastic money to explore and continue a number pattern about going to a disco. They then describe the pattern.

Student solve multiplication and division problems that involve money.

Students complete a table to show the amount of money paid for work, and finish a rule to describe the relationship.

Students work out the cost and the weights of buying several bags of flour.

Students use addition and subtraction to work out costs related to the purchase of grocery items.

Students calculate the number of logs stacked by a group of children using information about the amount paid per log.

Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.

Students calculate the cost of several cans of soft drinks, the maximum number bought for a given cost, and the change given after buying several cans.

Using given information about a shop's takings students round the amounts to give estimated totals for four weeks takings.

Students answer questions about total cost, cheapest, most expensive, and the maximum number of books that can be bought. Book prices are decimal numbers.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate the changing balance in a students back account.

This task is about using multiplication, division and subtraction to solve problems involving money.

Students solve problems comparing and balancing amounts of money.

Using a set unit cost students find total costs for given quantities, and find the quantity for a given total cost.

In this practical task students use play money to show fractions of dollar amounts involving decimals.

In this practical task students use play money to show fractions of dollar amounts.

Different selections are made from a canteen menu that will cost a given amount. An extension activity is given that asks for all possible combinations to be found.