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Guesstimates

Goals: to practice vocabulary; to talk about prices; to do math problems

1. Cut out large pictures of a variety of household objects and glue them to pieces of construction paper. Cut off the prices, but keep a list of them on a separate sheet of paper.
 
2. Divide the class into two teams. One member from each team participates in each round of the game.
 
3. To play the game, show two or three objects to the first two players. Tell them the total amount of money they can spend. Have them guess which objects they could buy without going over the budget you have given them.
 
4. The player who chooses an amount that covers the purchase of all the objects without going over the budget wins the round and earns 100 points for his or her team. The team with the most points after ten rounds wins.
 
For example:

You set a $1,000 limit. You show three pictures: a couch (which costs $400), a coffee table (which costs $100), and a lamp (which costs $75). Team 1 bids $600 and Team 2 bids $800. Team 1 wins because they came closest to the total price of the objects ($575) without going over the limit ($1,000).
 
5. After each round, write the name and price of each object on the chalkboard and do the math together.
 

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