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MIX AND MATCH
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Drag the question block over the right answer box to tidy up the play room. Points are added and taken away automatically.

Click the answer boxes to hear the answer for each box. You must answer 5 questions correctly to complete the game
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Game: MIX AND MATCH

Aim: Drag question blocks to answer boxes

Method:
Drag the question block over the right answer box to tidy up the play room. Points are added and taken away automatically.

Click the answer boxes to hear the answer for each box. You must answer 5 questions correctly to complete the game

Total cost: 2 items
      
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MIX AND MATCH game to practice
'Total cost: 2 items' for 3rd grade

Total cost of 2 items

Learn how to add money costs with this topic

When you buy things you need to know how much it will cost you so that you know if you have enough money to pay for them. So we use addition to calculate the TOTAL cost by adding up each item cost. Adding money is similar to adding any other numbers in math except you have to take care of converting from coins to notes.

For instance, if I went and bought 2 things at 90 cents each, what would the total cost of the items be?

90¢ + 90¢ = 180¢ = $1.80

So when the total goes over one dollar, we need to get an answer in both dollars and cents. So if we add 90 cents and 90 cents we have a total of 180 cents but we know that 100 cents is 1 dollar, so we have 1 dollar and a remainder of 80 cents.


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With our Mix and match math game you will be practicing the topic "Total cost: 2 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 the total cost of the 2 items.

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.

Drag the question block to the correct answer box to tidy the play room

In this game we are in a room with lots of toys - and the room needs clearing up - you need to put the play blocks back in the right boxes to tidy the room and win the game...but which is the right box for each block? Well, you can work that out by comparing the question on the block with the math answer on each of the boxes - you should drag the question block into the box whose math answer matches the picture question.

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You can listen to the spoken math answer by clicking on the individual boxes. There are 5 blocks to clear up - but if you put them in the wrong boxes, there will be more... Anyway, tidy is good and practicing math is better so start now and see how you get on...

This game reinforces the math you learned or revised in the lesson by asking you to match each question to the correct answer. If you are older you may not like the childish reference to toys, but don't worry - there are other games to play, and who knows - you might like a trip down memory lane?

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How to play Mix and match to practice
'Total cost: 2 items' for 3rd grade

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There are 5 blocks that need putting away to tidy the play room. Drag (they are heavy...) the blocks to the correct boxes.

  1. Click on "PLAY" on the settings page to start the game
  2. You see the first question block and 3 boxes to put it into
  3. On each box is a possible math answer to the question
  4. Click on any answer box to hear the spoken audio for that answer
  5. Drag the question block to the answer box where it belongs
  6. If you are correct, the block will stay in the box, the ball will roll and the teddy bear will do a little jump
  7. If you are wrong, a wrong sound will play and the question block will jump back to where it was, and you can try again
  8. Clear all 5 question blocks to complete the game
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