Money in years 3&4

[naughtymummy]

I have just.got back from the park with dd(yR) ds (yr 3). I was sitting outside the cafeand the children asked for a drink. I gave them £3 and told them to buy themselves a drink (the drinks.were priced between £75p and 1.25. Would you expect your yr 3/4 child to be able.to work out which drink they could have? Ds is.easily able.to do this.but.the.visiting child couldn't work it out. Was I being unreasonable.expecting her too?

Sorry meant to say had visiting yr 4 child with us

An average Y4 child should be able to do this easily.

But there's no reason to assume this child has average maths ability. Clearly.

Fair point she is quite a bright girl so was surprised then wondered if I should have been .Thanks.for confirming.

Yeah, a verbally "bright" child doesn't necessarily have ability across the range.

It's an easy trap to fall into :P

Stealth boast how? My mum let us do this sort of thing all the time.

I just wondered if it was me or this an ok thing to do generally.Btw guest is fine they are all playing nicely upstairs so no harm done

Maybe she could have done it on a worksheet at school, but had never been given money before and so couldn't apply her school learning?

Strangely she said I think you should give the money to me ho hum

If they both bought the most expensive drinks it would be 2.50 for both of them...so why would they be working anything out anyway?

Had dd withthem as well

'£75p and 1.25.'

'Ds is.easily able.to do this.but.the.visiting child '

You do realise that you are operating at a weak 2c with your inability to use either punctuation, or written methods of recording money, correctly?
Plus to and too are different words, and you selected the wrong homophone.

And what if they had all wanted the £1.25 drinks? You weren't just asking them to do maths, you were asking them to negotiate with each other. And say your two children wanted the most expensive drinks - that wouldn't have left enough for the guest... who is supposed to pretend they don't want what they actually want in order not to embarrass the others? How polite are your children?...

Sorry about mad phone punctuation. I would worry about a yr 7 who couldn't work out which drink they could afford tbh. The negotiation was kind of the whole point,allowing them to have the discussion in a safe enviroment (I was right there to sort out or mediate any disputes) Given the maths ability (which I now realise was perhaps naive of me) the whole point of the exercise was learning those very skills !

Is it good for any child always to get their first choice reguardless of cost ?

Perhaps the girl was a bit to be given Maths and negotiation homework on a playdate.

Some more background this girl is round here all the time, they know eachother very well. I would not do this on a first or second playdate whom I didn't know well

I thought playdates were all about learning social skills

How would you sort out a 2biscuits 3 children at home.senario? I would try to get them to find the solution.

Once the maths was sorted they were more than capable of sorting themselves out

How lovely to discuss someone else's child's Maths ability on a public forum.

How come this child has suddenly been bumped up to year 7??? I thought she was 7 years old? And how come you are blaming her for the difficulties and not your children? How do you know they weren't the unreasonable ones, both wanting drinks for £1.25? Wouldn't that make your children the ones who can either not do maths or not negotiate fairly? If they had worked the maths out and asked for something reasonable, then there wouldn't have been a problem for the guest.

you could have given them £4 then they could all have the expensive drink if they wished and still allowed you to discuss maths prowess or lack thereof