Maths 12: Money

This unit is meant to provide children experiences in dealing with collections of coins and notes. The teacher should design or do the following suggestive activities

1. Introduce coins and currency notes to the children through conversation by asking them (a) From where do we buy things, say, pencils, erasers, sweets etc? (b) What do we give to the shopkeeper for the things we buy?

2. After you have introduced the coins and notes of different denominations, ask them to sort all the coins of say, 50 paise from a given collection of coins and so on.

3. Bring an empty pack of toothpaste, wrapper of soap etc. Ask the students to read the price tag on the pack and pick up a coin or note from the collection of coins/notes for which the said object can be bought.

4. Give them some coins/notes of same/different denominations and ask them to find the total value of the collection.

5. Ask the students to make a given amount by using coins/notes of different denominations.