SAMPLE from "40 MATHEMATICAL NEWSPAPER SEARCHES"

The following is a sample from " 40 Mathematical Newspaper Searches". Visitors to this site are free to download this sample and make copies for use only within their classroom. The searches are numbered according to level of difficulty so number 2 is one of the easier activities.

2. WHAT DOES IT COST?

Working out the costs of various items often involves addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of money.

Here is an example of a problem which would involve the addition of money.

Example #1. Find the total cost of the items below:

Here is an example that would involve multiplication with money:

Example #2. How much would it cost for these six bottles?

The cost would be $5.10

TASK #1

Collect cuttings from the newspaper and from these cuttings make up two examples involving each of these;

(i) Addition of money

(ii) Multiplication of money

(iii) Subtraction of money

(iv) Division of money

TASK #2

Work out answers for the eight problems you have set out.

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