What are sells?

Sells are when you give something to get something else back, just like trading toys at recess.

Imagine you have a red ball and your friend has a blue car. You really want that blue car, so you trade your red ball for it. That’s like a sell! You gave away your red ball (that's what you sold) to get the blue car (that's what you bought).

What Sells Look Like

Think of a store, when you buy candy, you give money to the shopkeeper, and they give you the candy. The shopkeeper is doing a sell too! They gave you the candy to get your money.

Sometimes people sell things because they don’t need them anymore. Maybe your mom sells her old bike so she can buy new shoes, that’s still a sell, even if it's not at a store!

So, sells are like trading or giving something to get something else back, just like when you trade toys or buy candy! Sells are when you give something to get something else back, just like trading toys at recess.

Imagine you have a red ball and your friend has a blue car. You really want that blue car, so you trade your red ball for it. That’s like a sell! You gave away your red ball (that's what you sold) to get the blue car (that's what you bought).

What Sells Look Like

Think of a store, when you buy candy, you give money to the shopkeeper, and they give you the candy. The shopkeeper is doing a sell too! They gave you the candy to get your money.

Sometimes people sell things because they don’t need them anymore. Maybe your mom sells her old bike so she can buy new shoes, that’s still a sell, even if it's not at a store!

So, sells are like trading or giving something to get something else back, just like when you trade toys or buy candy!

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Examples

  1. A toy store sells 100 teddy bears for $10 each, making $1,000.
  2. You buy a soda from a vending machine, that's one sell.
  3. A farmer sells apples to a grocery store.

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