Percentages: The Singapore Budget 2021 (NE)

Study Notes (p12-p15) Activity 2

In this activity, we are going to learn more about the Singapore Budget: Where the money comes from, and where the money goes to - i.e. the priorities, how and whether they have changed over the years. 

We will examine more closely: 

• What are our sources of revenue and how the pandemic has affected the contributing incomes? 
• How has the government (re-)prioritise the money allocation before and after the pandemic? 

(A) GROUP Activity

1. INTERPRETATION of Information:

• You will need to interpret the source in order to pick the correct information to answer the questions.
• Help your group members to see how the budget allocated has changed.

2. SOLVING the problems:

• Answer the questions in p11 and p13.
• Write the working and the units clearly.

3. SUBMISSION of work:

• Check the answers among the team members.
• Each member of the team will take charge of uploading the worked solution into the padlet.
• If there are only 4 members in the group, one of the members will need to upload worked solutions twice.
• In the HEADER of the post, indicate GROUP (Name of member posting the work) e.g. GROUP 10 LRRH

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(B) INDIVIDUAL Response

You have now taken a closer look at the Budget.

In relation to the budget presented, complete the following sentence using the following:

I found out from....... (which data source) that ....... (at least 10 words)

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