The children in Years 3 and 4 recently had the opportunity to demonstrate their calculating skills and knowledge of money.

Miss Stewart raided her cupboards at home and brought in various bags of shopping, filled with different items, which each amounted to a different total. The children had to work together in their table groups to calculate the amount of each bag and identify which denomination of money would be best used to pay for the items. In addition, the children then had to identify how much change would be received once each bag of shopping had been paid for. As you can see from the pictures below the children engaged with the task and had a lot of fun using real life objects in their maths activity. Miss Stewart then got to take her bags of shopping home to refill her empty cupboards!