Back to Exercise: Solving Currency Conversion Problems

Exercises: Solving Currency Conversion Problems

Use this exchange rate chart: 1 USD = 3,750 Shs, 1 GBP = 4,850 Shs,
1 KES = 29 Shs, 1 TZS = 1.60 Shs. Show all working, including every step
of multi-step problems.

Grade 6·15 problems·~25 min·Uganda NCDC Primary 6 Mathematics·lesson·money-04

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Recall / Warm-Up

A word problem says a trader has Uganda Shillings and wants to know how many US Dollars he can buy. Which operation should he use?

Multiplication, treating the Uganda Shillings as if they were already the smaller foreign-currency unit

Addition, combining the shillings and the exchange rate into one total

Division, since he is converting from Uganda Shillings (many small units) to US Dollars (fewer, larger-value units), using the exchange rate

Subtraction, removing the exchange rate's value from his shillings

What are the four steps of the problem-solving method used throughout this topic?

Fluency Practice

Convert 18 US Dollars to Uganda Shillings.

Convert 17,400 Uganda Shillings to Kenyan Shillings.

Convert 14 British Pounds to Uganda Shillings.

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