Lesson 17 Our Market’s Inventory
Warm-up Notice and Wonder: The Shopping Cart
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Activity 1 100 Items
You sell 3 kinds of items in a store. At the beginning of each day you have:
a total of 100 items
less than 10 of one of the items
more than 10 for the other 2
Choose 3 items to sell at your market. Write the names of the items in the first row.
Fill in the second row to show how much of each item you begin the day with.
Share your store set-up with your partner pair. Discuss:
the amount you have for each item
how you know that you have a total of 100 items at your store
names | item 1: | item 2: | item 3: |
---|---|---|---|
amount at the beginning of the day | |||
sales activity | |||
amount at the end of the day |
Activity 2 Buyers and Sellers
At your table, take turns rolling a number cube. Each person should roll three times. Record each roll.
Roll 1:
Roll 2:
Roll 3:
Buyers: You will buy a certain amount of each item. Use the numbers you rolled to make:
- two-digit numbers
- one-digit numbers
Sellers: After a sale, update the total number of items you have sold on your inventory sheet next to “sales activity.”
Activity 3 Sales Reports
Fill out the inventory sheet with the information from your sales from the previous activity.
item 1
item 2
item 3
totals
starting amount
number of items sold
number of items left
restock amount
Summarize the activity of your store.