0.1 To solve problems in context

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Content

Activity 3.10 to solve problems in context [lo 1.6.1]

To use a range of techniques to perform calculations [lo 1.8.2]

1. CHALLENGE!

Choose any five items / articles that you are able to buy in a shop (they do not necessarily have to be groceries).

Write down what each item / article costs. You can cut out the pictures in the newspaper and paste it. Work neatly. Talk to your grandparents or any other older person about what the price was when they were children. Calculate how much more expensive it is now.

2. ANOTHER CHALLENGE!

Arrange a class discussion and find answers to the following:

2.1 What is a budget?

2.2 Must families have a budget?

2.3 Do YOU have a budget according to which you spend

your pocket money? If so, tell the class about it.

Assessment

Learning Outcome 1: The learner will be able to recognise, describe and represent numbers and their relationships, and to count, estimate, calculate and check with competence and confidence in solving problems.

Assessment Standard 1.6: We know this when the learner solves problems in context including contexts that may be used to build awareness of other Learning Areas, as well as human rights, social, economic and environmental issues such as:

1.6.1: financial (including buying and selling, profit and loss, simple budgets, reading and interpreting accounts, and discount);

Assessment Standard 1.8: We know this when the learner estimates and calculates by selecting and using operations appropriate to solving problems that involve:

1.8.2: addition and subtraction of whole numbers.