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How do our spending choices affect others around the world?
This activity gives pupils the opportunity to explore the concept of ‘fairness’ and engage with real-life dilemmas about how to spend money ethically. They will develop an understanding of some of the ways supermarkets merchandise goods and can make informed spending decisions. It provides a rich context for mathematics, through a subject that is relevant to their lives.

Encourages children to think about spending money ethically, and make spending decisions based on all the information about products. 

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Shopping sense

How do our spending choices affect others around the world? This activity gives children the opportunity to explore the concept of ‘fairness’ and engage with real-life dilemmas about how to spend money ethically. They will develop an understanding of some of the ways supermarkets merchandise goods and can make informed spending decisions.

This activity is part of our range of Money Heroes resources for children with special educational needs.

These resources have been adapted to be flexible for use in a range of settings and with children of varying abilities or special educational needs. Rather than using age groups or key stages, each activity has been given a difficulty level, based on children’s financial knowledge, skills and understanding. Practitioners should choose activities based on the financial capability level of the children they are working with.

This is an **advanced** level activity – this level suits children who are ready to start building on their financial education knowledge and basic understanding with more challenging thinking and development of skills.


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Shopping sense - Advanced

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