Learning centers Term 2 Week 3 (Thursday)
Prompt: Create a mini supermarket and go shopping.
-Explain that this term one of the new centers that we are going to set up is in the mathematicians Centre. Year 1 are going to work together this term to set up a supermarket in to demonstrate how we can be Mathematicians in the real world. Explain that we need to be good mathematicians when we go to the shop and buy things. -Ask students to TPS in pairs – all the ways we can be mathematicians when we go to the shops to buy something. -Record and discuss responses. E.g., we need to read prices on items, identify the correct amount of money we need to buy an item, we need to add and subtract money, we need to have a shopping list and add up how much money we need to pay, we need to calculate how much change we need to get back, we need to decide on how many items we can afford to buy with the money we have in our wallet and we need to identify the correct amount of money (coins or notes). -Discuss the importance of being able to identify money when we are shopping. We need to count or add up money so we can calculate how much to pay the cashier. Explain that WALT identify Australian money, both coins and notes in order to add and subtract amounts that we need to buy our items. WALT identify coins and dollars from lowest to highest value. Watch the Skwirk video on Youtube that identifies the Austrailan coins and notes- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMy7WDt2Hr4 Identify different denominations presented in the video. Talk about the different symbols used (c, $) and what they mean. ( Cents are a smaller unit of measurement than dollars. Each dollar is made up of 100 cents). Discuss with students and display play money to sort. -Explain that we have been collecting different shopping items for our supermarket in the last week. But our items were all mixed up on our shelf and were not organised into categories or like items together. Explain that yesterday the mathematicians in our supermarket center started to organise the food into groups that go together and put them up onto the shelves. Explain the mathematicians should be able to organise groups of items that are the same. Display a photo from Monday’s lesson. Give students 1 minute to notice what items were grouped or organised together. TPS / discuss and record the groups of food students noticed. Discuss the labels/ signs that the mathematicians have made on the shelves to help them organise the food into categories and make it easier to find when they are shopping for items. Explain that if everything has a space and is clearly labeled it will make it easier for the customers to find their items. -Today, the students in the mathematician’s center will need to decide how much they should price each item in the supermarket. Their job is to be very careful not to over price items. Display- some supermarket catalogues to students. Model how to find similar items in the catalogue and to check how much they are being sold for. Students can then decide to price that item similarly but to the nearest whole dollar so that items are easier to add and subtract. E.g. if eggs cost $5.35, students can price them as an even $5. -Model how to use small round stickers to label the item and stick it on the item so that customers can decide on if it’s in their budget to buy. -Explain that students must work together to decide on prices for all items before they label them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2eDawFb9ro -Students can then practice shopping and adding 2-3 item prices together to work out how much it will cost them to buy. Reflection- Students are to share their experience with the rest of stage 1.
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