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Running a small business
An AR classroom game for Grade 5. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.
This set has 6 questions in an interactive multiple choice activity.
A look before you play
Sample questions
A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.
What comes before starting to sell?
- Find out what people want and who the competitors are
- Make as many products as possible first
- Set a price lower than every other shop
Read the explanation
Find out whether anyone wants it, and what your competitors sell.
What must a price take into account?
- Always the lowest price in the market
- Cost, profit and a price customers accept
- Only the price the shop next door charges
Read the explanation
The cost, the profit you want, and what the customer will pay.
Why do customers come back?
- The shop is big and advertises a lot
- The shop has a big sign and nice decoration
- Good products and good service
Read the explanation
Good goods, a fair price, and good service.
Before you play
Game teaching guide
What children will practise
Understand how a small business works: research demand and competitors, price from cost, profit and what customers will pay, keep customers coming back, keep accounts, keep your word, and improve when sales are poor.
What's in the worksheet
6 questions, multiple choice with 3 options each - Before selling: research demand and competitors (not make as much as possible first) - Pricing: cost, profit and what customers accept - Customers return for good products and good service - Keeping your word builds trust - Poor sales: find the cause and improve (not cut prices every time)
How to use it in class
Use before a Grade 5 market day or selling project. 6 minutes. - Play in the groups that will actually sell, then each group applies questions 1 and 2 to plan its stall - Use question 6 after the market to review why some stalls sold poorly - If many miss question 2, ask "If the price is the lowest in the market but below cost, what happens?" - Play it linked to a class and the scores go into the class gradebook.
Common sticking points
- In question 2, choosing always the lowest price, thinking cheapest sells most; work an example that sells a lot but loses money - In question 6, choosing cut prices every time, having seen frequent promotions - In question 3, choosing big shops that advertise, since the shops children know are often heavily advertised
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