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Saving and spending

Occupations and Technology

Saving and spending

An AR classroom game for Grade 3. 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.

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A look before you play

Sample questions

A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.

  1. When should you write your accounts up?

    • Every time money comes in or goes out
    • Once a month, at the end of the month
    • Only when buying something expensive
    Read the explanation

    Every time money comes in or goes out.

  2. Where should savings be kept?

    • In your pocket
    • Bank
    • Under the pillow
    Read the explanation

    A bank is safer than the house, and it pays interest.

  3. What does setting a savings goal do?

    • You earn more interest from the bank
    • You can spend more every day
    • You stay motivated and know how much to save
    Read the explanation

    It gives you a reason to save, and tells you how much a month.

Before you play

Game teaching guide

What children will practise

Manage your own money: record every income and expense, keep savings in a bank, set a savings goal, tell needs from wants, compare prices, and avoid buying unneeded things just because they are on sale.

What's in the worksheet

6 questions, multiple choice with 3 options each - Keeping accounts: every time money comes in or goes out - A savings goal keeps you motivated and shows how much to save - Needs can't be done without; wants we can live without - Comparing prices: good quality at a fair price (not always the cheapest) - At a sale: watch out for buying things you don't need

How to use it in class

Use in the Grade 3 saving unit alongside a one-week snack-money diary. 6 minutes. - Play solo, then children name two things in their bag and say whether each is a need or a want - If many miss question 4, ask "Could we manage a week without this?" - For question 5, compare two pencils: the cheaper one breaks easily, so which is better value? - Play it linked to a class and the scores go into the class gradebook.

Common sticking points

- In question 4, choosing the reversed option (wants can't be done without), because ต้องการ sounds like must have; use rice versus a toy as the example - In question 5, choosing always the cheapest, thinking comparing prices means finding the cheapest - In question 3, choosing more interest, having just met the word ดอกเบี้ย in question 2