Newspaper Search
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1.
Numbers in the news.
Find
the following things
in the paper:
a
graph
a
number less than 10
something
that comes in
2s, 3s, 4s
a
number more than 50 the
days of the week
a
number more than 100
a
number that is more
than 100 but less than 999
a
symbol or word for
inches, feet, or yards, or centimetres and metres
a
schedule of some kind
a
triangle
a
weather symbol
a
percent sign
sports
statistics
2.
List it.
Provide
your child with
supermarket advertisements in order to make up a list of food that will
feed the family for a week and meet a budget of a certain amount of
money.
Have
your child make a
chart and use a calculator
to work out the cost of more than one item.
If
the total for the
groceries is too great, talk about which items can be eliminated.
Could
the list be cut
down by a few items or by buying less of another item?
What
will best serve the
needs of the family?
3.
For a
fraction of the cost.
Give
your child a few
coupons and supermarket ads from the paper.
Help
your child match the
coupons to some of the items in the advertisement.
What
fraction of the cost
is the coupon?
For
example, if an item
costs 79 cents and the coupon is for 10 cents off, what fraction of the
cost can be saved? (About 1/8.)
What
percentage are you
saving on the item? (About 12 1/2 percent.)
One
of the main ways
people use numbers is for planning.
Knowing
how to plan how
much things will cost before going to the shop and how to read
schedules and weather information from the paper will help your child
understand the world. |
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