This task is from Tools4NCTeachers. Students consider different ways to spend $1,000 at a toy store and use addition and subtraction to keep track of how much money they have spent and have left. This is remixable. 

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Read:  Congratulations!  You just won a $1,000 gift card to Toys for Us.  Look at the Toys for Us sales flier and make a list of what you will buy.  Be sure to spend as close as possible to $1,000 without going over.

Part 2:

Read: Use your work from Part 1 to answer each question.

•       What was the total cost of your items? 

•       How much money will be left on your gift card?

•       What strategies did you use to get as close to $1,000 as possible?

Is it possible to spend exactly $1,000?  Explain.