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Cultural Market Money Skills

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Cultural Market Money Skills

Use New Zealand dollars and cents to solve the market challenges. Read each price carefully. You may draw coins or use the number line to help you.

Plan Your Purchases

At Maia's market stall, a small woven kete costs $4, a painted card costs $3, and a shell-shaped pendant costs $2. These are pretend market prices for this activity.

1.A kete costs $4 and a painted card costs $3. How much do they cost altogether?
2.Which coins make exactly $5? Choose one answer.
  • $2 + $2 + $1
  • $2 + $1
  • $1 + $1 + $1
3.A pendant costs $2. Maia says two pendants cost $5. Is Maia correct? Write yes or no and the correct total.
TrueFalse
4.A painted card costs $3. You pay with a $5 note. How much change should you get?

Market Money Challenge

You have $10 to spend. Choose from these items: a kete for $4, a painted card for $3, or a pendant for $2. You can buy more than one item, but do not spend more than $10.

5.Choose a combination of items that costs exactly $9. Write the items and add their prices.
6.If you spend $9 from your $10, how much money will you have left?
7.Use the number line to show where the three item prices belong. Then write the prices from least to greatest.
012345
8.Complete the equation: $4 + = $7. What price fills the gap?
9.You have $6 and spend $4 on a kete. Circle the amount you save: $1, $2, or $3.
  • $1
  • $2
  • $3
10.Find two different combinations of the items that each cost $6. Write each combination and its addition sentence.

3 printable pages

  • Cultural Market Money Skills, page 1 of 3: Plan Your Purchases

    Page 1

  • Cultural Market Money Skills, page 2 of 3: Market Money Challenge

    Page 2

  • Cultural Market Money Skills, page 3 of 3: 10. Find two different combinations of the items that each cost $6. Write each

    Page 3

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