Mathematics

: Money Items

Approach: Independent
Resources: None
Questions / instructions: Imagine that you have $5. You are going to buy two or three of these snacks. You can only buy one of each type of snack.
		% responses
		y4	y8
1. Draw a ring around the two or three snacks you would buy. How much would the snacks you have chosen cost altogether?	correct	48	74
2. How much change would you get from $5?	correct, given amount in (1)	28	77
3. $2.70 is divided equally between 2 children. How much will each child get?	$1.35	26	81
4. Write the amount of change in the empty boxes. Price Money given How much change?		69 47 17 45
5. What is 1/4 of $1.00	25 ¢		14
6. What is 1/3 of $3.90	$1.30		52
250 people at Rua School are going on a sports trip. They will be going by bus. Each bus will seat 55 people. 7. Work out how many buses would be needed. Everyone must be in a seat.	5 buses		54
8. It will cost $80 to hire each bus. Work out how much it will cost to hire all of the buses for the trip.	correct amount, given answer to (7)		66
9. Work out how much each person will have to pay so that the school can pay the bus hire.	correct, given answer to (8) method correct, computational error		7 10
10. In a sale, everything is reduced by 1/3. How much will you save on something which used to cost $3.90?	$1.30 $2.60		40 13