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Have students find the "most expensive" and "cheapest" words in their spelling list.

Ask students to find a word that costs exactly a certain amount, such as 5. Tools for the Activity buy a word

To deepen the activity, you can introduce constraints or goals: Give students a fixed budget (e.g., Have students find the "most expensive" and "cheapest"

) and ask them to "buy" as many words as possible without going over. buy a word

While this can be done with pencil and paper, educational tools like Texas Instruments calculators often feature "Buy a Word" as a programmed activity to help students practice using fixed decimals and place value keys. VOCABULARY