Buying Things
How buying and selling works: prices, paying for items, receiving change; the basic transaction process in shops and markets
How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child had a £2 coin and wanted to buy a snack for 80p, could they work out roughly how much change they'd get back?
Where this sits on the map
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Builds on
Coins & Notesages 5–7Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions
Buying Thingsthis skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Fair Trade & Ethicsages 7–9Must understand buying before considering where products come from and who made them
Advertising & Spendingages 7–9Buying experience provides context for understanding advertising pressure
solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).