Cameron decided to break open our piggy bank and count the coins this week. It was excellent maths practice! He sorted the coins into similar coin piles and then made £1 piles using the least amount of coins he could - working his way down to the pennies. In the end he counted £13!!!
We went to the bank and got some money bags and he worked out how much to put in each bag, of which coins, by himself. We also weighed the bags like they do at the bank.
Cameron decided we should put the money towards our Christmas fund. He has his eye on a little tea light decoration we saw in a card shop the other day. It's a festively decorated fireplace with hooks and you can buy mini stockings with your name on to hang on it. He's hoping to be able to get a Cameron, a Tom (for his teddy Super Baby Tom) and a Mum stocking for me.
Practical maths really seems to work for Cameron in a way that a text book never does and the added motivation of being able to choose what to do with the money at the end definitely helped!
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