Many buyers and few apples raise a price. Many apples and few buyers lower it.
Nico sells apples at a little stall in Plumford. The apple never changes, but the price does.
When many people want an apple and there are only a few, the price goes up. When there are lots of apples and few buyers, the price goes down.
A price is like a seesaw, with apples at one end and buyers at the other. In one season the price was three, then five, then two.
Nobody is being unfair. That is just how prices move.
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
15 coins. 5 + 5 + 5 = 15.
Down. Lots of apples pull a price down.
Up. Few apples and many buyers push a price up.
3 coins. 5 − 2 = 3.
With a grown-up at a shop, look at one price and ask why it might go up or down.
At a shop, look at one price together and ask why it might go up or down. You might talk about things that cost less when there is plenty of them.
