Money

There are 366 different Starters of The Day, many to choose from. You will find in the left column below some starters on the topic of Money.

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Money Starters:

Aunt Sophie's Post Office: Work out the number of stamps needed to post a parcel.

Guitar For Sale: A question about the profit made when buying and selling a guitar.

High Interest: Finding a good personal loan requires an ability to calculate percentage and this page provides some practice.

Hotel Sumview: Can you work out what rooms at the hotel the family booked to produce the given bill?

Light Shopping: A lamp and a bulb together cost 32 pounds. The lamp costs 30 pounds more than the bulb. How much does the bulb cost?

Missing Pound: A puzzle about a restaurant bill.

Mortgage Loan: Find easy percentages of a large number.

Shopping List: A quick quiz about five items on a shopping list written 40 years ago.

Sid's Schemes: Work out which is the best scheme for Sid to choose for his summer bonus. One scheme involves a common misconception about percentages.

Student Loans: Six students borrow £5000 to help pay for their university course. Calculate how much each will have to pay back to the lender.

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Hi-Low Predict

Similar to the 'Play Your Cards' right game.

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For many students the ability they have to understand financial transactions is a skill they thank their mathematics teacher for. This is a real, practical application of mathematics to the real world.

Money Activities:

Mathopoly: A game of buying and selling property with maths questions thrown in for good measure.

Stamp Sticking: Drag stamps onto the envelopes to make the exact postage as shown at the top left of each envelope.

Take Baht: How many different ways can you make a given total with Thai coins?

Thai Restaurant: Calculate the restaurant bills for each of the tables in the Thai Restaurant.

Money Investigations:

Aunt Lucy: Decide which of the four schemes will provide the most money.

Have you got change?: An investigation about making change for different amounts.

lnvestigating stamps: How many different letters can you send with the given stamps.

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