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Directions: Each group will get a chance to buy food and sell food. Buy or sell two items and
then switch jobs so that the other group can buy or sell two items. If you finish early, do the
What if questions on the back together.
Sellers: When you sell food you DO NOT have to write anything. Your job is to check and make
sure you are given the correct amount of money, fractions, or base ten blocks.
Buyers: When you buy food, you must answer the questions on the worksheet.

Food
Breakfast Items
Fruit
Vegetables
Dinner
Dessert
Snacks/Other
Drinks

Price
Seven tenths
Thirty-two hundredths
Sixty-one hundredths
Twenty-five tenths
Fifty-three hundredths
Fourteen tenths
Six tenths

1. Choose a food to buy. Write it on the

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2. What is the cost of the food in standard form?
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3. What is the cost of the food in expanded form?
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4. Pay for it any way you want. Explain how you paid with pictures or words. Have a seller
check your work.

5.

Pay for the food in a different way. You can combine base ten blocks, fractions, and
money. Explain how you paid with pictures or words. Have a seller check your work.

6. Choose another food to buy. Write it on the

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7. What is the cost of the food in standard form?
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8. What is the cost of the food in expanded form?
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9. Pay for it any way you want. Explain how you paid with pictures or words. Have a seller
check your work.

10. Pay for the food in a different way. You can combine base ten blocks, fractions and
money. Explain how you paid with pictures or words. Have a seller check your work.

What if

What if you wanted to buy breakfast and you HAD TO pay for it by using 10 in fractions? Then
you had to pay the rest of the total with money. What would your cost look like?

What if you wanted to buy fruit or vegetables and you HAD TO pay for it by using .10 from your
base ten blocks? Then you had to pay the rest of the total with fractions. What would your
cost look like?

What if you wanted to buy dinner or a snack and you HAD TO pay for it by using .50 from your
money? Then you had to pay the rest of the total with base ten blocks. What would your cost
look like?

Make up your own problems and trade papers!