24 October 2013

Maths with a Purpose

Room 8 maths students used junk mail to compare the cost of rounding prices compared with non rounding.
What did we find out ? 
  1. Sometimes rounding was cheaper and sometimes not rounding was.
  2. Lots of shops trick us with 99 cents in the price which they round up
  3. we talked a lot about how prices are added 
And it was fun!


2 comments:

Evie said...

Wow! I didn't know shops tried to trick you like that.I'm glad I learned that.

gemma said...

I loved reading about Wagstaffe the wind-up boy.Lauren Child books are really really really really relly good BOOKS ;]