"Shopping is my all-time favorite thing to do!"
We have heard this statement very often and yes, definitely! everyone loves shopping!
Bringing such a joy and happiness to the classroom makes it more engaging for the students to explore and apply their algebraic skills while enjoying at the same time.
The students of Class VIII converted their classroom into a "market" and provided an opportunity to "buy" classroom items by writing their algebraic expressions.
Several classroom items like books, notebooks, stationery, crayons, chart papers, lockers, posters (which includes Mexican art work, timetable, birthday list, club students list, transport list, etc.), tables, chairs, flags and many more, were labelled with a variable on a sticky note.
Every student got a chance to be a shopkeeper and then a customer. The students shopped for the labelled items in the classroom. Taking turns with their partners, each student rolled a die to decide how many of each item they would purchase. (For eg- if a student rolled 3 for a book, they would write the expression 3B). The students wrote their expression for representing the whole purchase, once done with the shopping.
Through this activity, the students enhanced their algebraic skills of Constructing Expressions which includes real life experiences and writing their expression in simplified form.
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