P5 children had great fun demonstrating their skills of shopping at today’s Open Day! The children were keen to show the visitors how they could calculate the sum of a number of coins, ordering the coins in descending order, starting with the coin with the greatest value. They also showed their skills of calculating change from 50p and £1.00 using the mental mathematics strategy of partitioning. The children then engaged in role play, taking turns to be the customer and the shopkeeper. They chose an item from the class shop, calculated the change, and investigated how to give the correct change using the least number of coins. A very busy day shopping!
