Buying Things
Your child knows how buying works: you choose an item, pay for it, and get change. They can check if they have enough money for a snack.
In curriculum terms
How buying and selling works: prices, paying for items, receiving change; the basic transaction process in shops and markets
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
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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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
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).