K-6 Math in the News: Supermarket Math Fails
Channel: Professor Pete's Classroom
Date: 2016-08-01

Looking for ideas to connect classroom math with students' real lives? This video discusses a news article that you could use with your students in a lesson on "shopping math" or "what is the best price?"

Original article: "10 Times Aussie Supermarkets Failed at Math" - https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/10-times-aussie-supermarkets-failed-at-math-061622892.html

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