Writing Cheques

Starter of The Day Transum Mathematics Topics

Transum,
Cheques are still commonly used despite being largely replaced by more reliable methods of transferring money. They have been around since the 9th century but were particularly widespread during the last century. Many schools use them to pay for a Transum subscription!

How did you use this starter? Can you suggest how teachers could present or develop this resource? Do you have any comments? It is always useful to receive feedback and helps make this free resource even more useful for Maths teachers anywhere in the world.
Click here to enter your comments.

If you don't have the time to provide feedback we'd really appreciate it if you could give this page a score! We are constantly improving and adding to these starters so it would be really helpful to know which ones are most useful. Simply click on a button below:

Excellent, I would like to see more like this
Good, achieved the results I required
Satisfactory
Didn't really capture the interest of the students
Not for me! I wouldn't use this type of activity.

This starter has scored a mean of 3.2 out of 5 based on 553 votes.

Previous Day | This starter is for 17 May | Next Day

Answers

£128.00 = One hundred and twenty eight pounds only

£3647.00 = Three thousand, six hundred and forty seven pounds only

£12376.00 = Twelve thousand, three hundred and seventy six pounds only

£3173670.00 = Three million, one hundred and seventy three thousand, six hundred and seventy pounds only

Total = £3189821

Note to teacher: Doing this activity once with a class helps students develop strategies. It is only when they do this activity a second time that they will have the opportunity to practise those strategies. That is when the learning is consolidated. Click the button above to regenerate another version of this starter from random numbers.

Your access to the majority of the Transum resources continues to be free but you can help support the continued growth of the website by doing your Amazon shopping using the links on this page. Below is an Amazon search box and some items chosen and recommended by Transum Mathematics to get you started.


	Teacher, do your students have access to computers? Do they have iPads or Laptops in Lessons? Whether your students each have a TabletPC, a Surface or a Mac, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Here a concise URL for a version of this page without the comments.

Transum.org/go/?Start=May17

Here is the URL which will take them to a related student activity.

Transum.org/go/?to=NumWords

Curriculum Reference

See the National Curriculum page for links to related online activities and resources.

A Maths Starter of The Day

Answers

Curriculum Reference