Skill: The activities in this section will help your child with solving simple numerical problems relating to counting, measuring, money, shape, movement and graphs. This activity Let's go shopping, helps your child use mathematical ideas and methods, to solve practical problems.
Get a variety of everyday objects, such as tins
ReplyDeleteof food, and lay them out on a table.
Then label each object with a price up to 5p.
Then give your child 10p
to spend at the ‘shop’.
Depending on your child’s ability, you could give
ten 1p coins, or a 5p coin
and five 1p coins or a 5p, 2p and three 1p etc…
Your child needs to work out what they can buy with their
10p. When they buy their first item, give them their change
and then let them work out what they can buy next.