Due: Monday 1 st December 2014
Weekly Tasks:
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Read each night.
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Practise and memorise any times tables you need to improve on and write them in your book.
3.
Practise and learn your spelling words.
MY SPELLING WORDS
FOR THIS WEEK
PHONEMES
(Sounds you can hear)
TRICKY PART IN THE
WORD
Focus:
Eg. Graph g/r/a/ph/ ph
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Maths: Currency Exchange Rates
Imagine that you are going on a trip to these countries: United States, Canada, Europe, England, India and Japan.
You need to find out the exchange rate between Australian Dollars (AUD) and the respective countries’ currencies.
Use the internet to find out and write in the exchange rate for each foreign currency per AUD$1 in the table below:
Currency
American Dollar
Canadian Dollar
Euro
Code
USD
CAD
EUR
Buying Selling
British Pound
Indian Rupee
Japanese Yen
GBP
INR
JPY
Using a calculator and the information you have found, find out how much of each foreign currency you will get if you exchange:
1.
AUD$500 for American Dollars
2.
AUD$250 for Canadian Dollars
3.
AUD$310 for Euro
4.
AUD$420 for British Pounds
5.
AUD$500 for Indian Rupees
6.
AUD$600 for Japanese Yen
After your trip, you want to change your excess foreign currency back to Australian Dollars. Calculate how much
AUD you will get if you exchange:
7.
USD$100
8.
EUR$78
9.
INR$180
10.
JPY$120

Literacy: Cloze
Make sentences with 10 words selected from the following list and ask a family member to attempt the task by working out the missing word. Record their attempts in your homework book. finance, bank, deposit, credit, balance, interest, cheque, withdrawal, purchase, income, savings, budget, debit, insurance, superannuation, income, deduction, revenue, overdraft, invoice, retailer, receipt
Example: I needed $350 to buy a new microwave oven, so I went to the ATM to make a ___________.
(ans: withdrawal)
Integrated Studies: Online Shopping vs Retail Shopping
Go to http://tv.about.com/od/learningcenter/a/onlinevsstoretv.htm
and read about shopping online and at the store (retail). Then, using the information and your own general knowledge, make a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two forms of shopping (you can do this manually or use ICT tools).
Which form of shopping do you prefer and why?