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Money and Markets
Run one shop between you and find out where the money went.
1 week
The same topic, four ways
Grades 6 to 8
Cost, price, profit — and why they are three different numbers.
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Grades 9 to 10
Margin, demand, and what happens when you change the price.
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Build it together: The family shop
What you need
- things you already own
- paper for price labels
- a coin float
Steps
- Everyone contributes three items to sell to each other.
- Youngest makes the labels; oldest sets the prices and says why.
- Trade for twenty minutes using the float.
- Count up. Who ended with the most, and was it the best trader?