{"id":11817,"date":"2022-09-21T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T10:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2022-09-21T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T10:35:15","slug":"musum-on-the-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=11817","title":{"rendered":"MUS\u00a3UM on the MOUND"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of our upcoming Maths Week Scotland event starting soon, Primary 5 \u2013 7 met with Gillian from the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh today.\u00a0 We participated in a live online, interactive workshop to explore the History of Money<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The session began by discussing what do we use money for?\u00a0 The children came up with the explanations that we use it to exchange something to get something else. We could save or we can \u00a0gift it.\u00a0 Tilly said that we have to earn money.\u00a0 Erin explained that we use coins and notes, Apple Pay, Contactless cards today.<\/p>\n

We tried ripping polymer samples of bank notes but couldn\u2019t do it.\u00a0 They are pretty tough.<\/p>\n

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The children were given samples of items which were used as money long ago.\u00a0 The first items were cowry shells.\u00a0 These were used as money in China 4000 years ago and in Africa 100 years ago.<\/p>\n

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These are strong, rare and couldn\u2019t be copied.\u00a0 They were used far away from the sea. 500 years ago, one shell would buy you a cow, approx. \u00a31500 in today\u2019s money.<\/p>\n

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We then looked at a tevau, which was used as money in the Solomon Islands.\u00a0 The children tried to identify what this 9 metres long item is made from.\u00a0 It turned out to be made of bird feathers which are trimmed from the bird and it is then released. It would take one person over a year to make a tevau, thus it was a very valuable item.\u00a0 Cameron stepped out 9 metres with string in the classroom. It was 40 of his foot lengths. Everyone agreed that not everyone has the same sided feet so the length might be inconsistant if measured using different people’s feet sizes.<\/p>\n