Q: How can you double your money? A: Put it in front of a mirror!
Practical Shopping Task
Estimation Task Ask your mam or dad if you can go supermarket shopping with them this week. Bring a pencil and paper. Have a look at the price of each item as it goes into the trolley to try to keep a rough account of how much the fi nal bill is going to be. Round the price of each item to the nearest euro as it goes into the trolley and write this rounded price on your paper. Before you get to the checkout, add up all the rough prices to make your estimate for the total shopping bill.
Estimated total shopping bill = Actual total shopping bill =
What was the difference between your estimated total shopping bill and the actual bill?
Is there a way you could estimate more accurately while shopping? Discuss with your family/class.
Subtracting Money Have a look at this selection of toys.
When we are subtracting one amount of money from another, we must always write the bigger amount of money above the smaller amount, before subtracting.
For example:
Tucker had €5.60. He then spent €2.41 on a truck. How much money did Tucker have left after he bought the truck?