Buying things
How buying and selling works: prices, paying for items, receiving change; the basic transaction process in shops and markets
What a learner can do afterwards
- Explain a shop purchase: choose an item, check its price, pay, take the item, and collect change if it is owed
- Read a price label and say whether they have enough money to buy the item
- Act out a simple buying scenario using real or play coins
1 · Read
In a shop, choose an item and check its price. You are the customer. Give money to the seller. The seller gives you the item, and you can take it home. If you pay more than the price, collect your change. If you pay the exact price, no change is needed.
We use US money, as in the coins lesson. A price label tells you how much to pay. Compare your money with the price. You have enough if your money equals the price or is more. If you have less, it is not enough. With 20 cents for a 60-cent item, you need more money.
The money held is less than the price.
$1 is 100 cents. Two $1 bills make $2, or 200 cents. Change is the payment minus the price. You can find it by counting up. Mia pays 100 cents for a 70-cent toy. Count 80, 90, 100: three jumps of 10 cents give 30 cents change. With a $2 payment, count to 100 cents first, then add another 100 cents.
The jumps add up to 30 cents of change.
Choose an item, check the price, pay and take the item. Collect change if you paid more than the price.
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2 · Watch
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