How can shopkeepers use numbers Students investigate the establishment of a class shop. This may involve developing a Number Technology to make it easy to use their shops? numbering system for being served, arranging goods on shelves according to size (e.g. shoe TP 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 Number concepts boxes or or pricing goods using small whole numbers. Once the class shop is children’s clothes) TP 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 Chance and Data established, students roleplay buying and selling the goods. SYS 1.1, 1.2 Data This investigation provides students with opportunities to develop understandings of position and SYS 2.1, 2.2 order of numbers, counting, quantity of numbers, representations of numbers, how money is SOSE used in exchange for goods and services, and how subtraction is used to calculate the day’s SRP 1.1, 1.2 takings. SRP 2.1, 2.2 Data collection activities could be included to investigate items associated with the class shop (e.g. shoe sizes, favourite cereals). students’
How can shopkeepers use numbers to make it easy to use their shops? Students investigate the establishment of a class shop. This may involve developing a numbering system for being served, arranging goods on shelves according to size (e.g. shoe boxes or children’s clothes) or pricing goods using small whole numbers. Once the class shop is established, students roleplay buying and selling the goods. This investigation provides students with opportunities to develop understandings of position and order of numbers, counting, quantity of numbers, representations of numbers, how money is used in exchange for goods and services, and how subtraction is used to calculate the day’s takings. Data collection activities could be included to investigate items associated with the class shop (e.g. students’ shoe sizes, favourite cereals). Number Number concepts Chance and Data Data Technology TP 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 TP 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 SYS 1.1, 1.2 SYS 2.1, 2.2 SOSE SRP 1.1, 1.2 SRP 2.1, 2.2