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You start the game with 50 points. Each question has 2 to 4 answers. Select the correct answer before your time runs out to score points. Right answers are +10, wrong answers are -2, out of time is -5.

This is a timed game. Your final score is equal to the total score minus time taken.
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Game: CHOOSE OR LOSE

Aim: Choose the right answer; beat the clock

Method:
You start the game with 50 points. Each question has 2 to 4 answers. Select the correct answer before your time runs out to score points. Right answers are +10, wrong answers are -2, out of time is -5.

This is a timed game. Your final score is equal to the total score minus time taken.

Total cost: 3 items
      
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CHOOSE OR LOSE game to practice
'Total cost: 3 items' for 3rd grade

Total cost of 3 items

When you buy things you need to know how much it will cost you so that you know if you have enough money. We use addition to calculate the TOTAL cost by adding up each individual item cost. Adding money is similar to adding any other numbers in math except that if the 3 numbers together add up to more than one dollar then we need to deal with both dollars and cents.

Sometimes we are just adding the cents: Say we have 3 things that cost 22 cents each. To know the total cost, we simply add the 22 cents three times to get 66 cents. If the items cost different amounts, we can still add up those 3 amounts to get a total cost:

15¢ + 23¢ + 34¢ = 72¢.

When the total goes over one dollar, we need to get an answer in both dollars and cents. So if we add 75 cents, 75 cents and 75 cents we have a total of 225 cents but we know that 200 cents is 2 dollars, so we have 2 dollars and a remainder of 25 cents. So the sum with answer is

75¢ + 75¢ + 75¢ = $2.25¢.


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With our Choose or lose math game you will be practicing the topic "Total cost: 3 items" from 3rd grade / Addition / Word problems. The math in this game consists of 14 questions that ask you to use addition to find out how much the 3 items cost in total.

Word problems: adding items and item costs

Learn how to add items and how to add the cost of multiple items

Topic titles:

  • Total number of items
  • Total cost of 2 items
  • Total cost of 3 items

Sometimes in math the problems are not given as numbers but as words and sentences. This doesn't mean that the math you have to do is different, but it does mean you have to work out first what the sum you are being asked to do is, and then work on the sum itself. In this set of topics, the questions are to do with adding up either the total number of items or the total cost of a set of 2 or 3 items.

When we want to understand math addition word problems, we need to read carefully through the text and create the sum that takes the number information out of the text and puts it in a sum. When we read the text "Logan has 30 Rich tea biscuits and 17 Digestives" we can see that the sum involves finding how many biscuits Logan has in total which we find by adding up the number of Rich tea biscuits and digestive biscuits. So the total number of biscuits is 30 + 17 which is 47.

When the sentences we are looking at involve money our addition sum will involve adding amounts of money rather than numbers of items. Given the text "Grace buys 3 pencils for 54¢, 64¢ and 75¢." we realise that we need to add the 3 amounts to come to the total that Grace has spent on pencils. Because that total is greater than 100¢, the answer will be in both dollars and cents. Can you work out what that amount will be? Try the topic "Total cost of 3 items" to check your answer.

Select the correct answers to the elementary math problems before the clock counts you out

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Our CHOOSE OR LOSE game is a simple activity to help elementary math learners and will improve the speed at which you can solve problems in the given topic. It does not rely on the learner typing in the answer. Rather, the learner must choose the correct answer from a list of 2, 3 or 4 similar answers.

CHOOSE OR LOSE encourages faster problem-solving for common and vital elementary math topics. CHOOSE OR LOSE is a timed game with a leaderboard for each topic at each of the 4 levels on offer. You can play the game with or without audio and robots.

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How to play Choose or lose to practice
'Total cost: 3 items' for 3rd grade

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Our CHOOSE OR LOSE game asks the learner to click on the correct answer from a selection of possible answers before the clock runs down.

  1. Click on PLAY to start.
  2. You are presented with a topic question, then a list or grid of 2 to 4 possible answers (depending on the topic you have chosen).
  3. You must select the correct answer by clicking on it before the clock counts down.
  4. You have 10 seconds in total to answer each question.
  5. The clock starts ticking down 5 seconds after the answers have appeared.
  6. To hear the question again, click / tap on the question box.
  7. The browser will speak the potential answers on rolling-over them.
  8. A correct answer gains you 10 points.
  9. A wrong answer loses you 2 points.
  10. A time-out loses you 5 points.
  11. A score is kept of correct answers against number of answers.
  12. The game is timed, and your final score (points earned minus time taken) is given at the end of the game. Top 10 scores for a topic get you a place on the leaderboard.
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