Mathematics
Money matters
Curriculum links
Mathematics
The activity links to elements of the Mathematics Primary School Curriculum, for example, by allowing pupils to recognise and appreciate measures in everyday use (money) and convert other currencies to euro and vice versa.
Geography
The activity links to elements of the Geography Primary School Curriculum, for example, by allowing pupils to acquire an ability to understand, develop and use a growing range of maps and globes and to extend, refine and apply mathematical skills.
The cost of post
Curriculum links
The activity links to elements of the Mathematics Primary School Curriculum, for example, by allowing pupils to recognise and appreciate measures in everyday use (money) and record money amounts as cents and euros.
Getting a passport
Curriculum links
Mathematics
The activity links to elements of the Mathematics Primary School Curriculum, for example, by allowing pupils to recognise and appreciate measures in everyday use (money) and applying mathematical concepts and processes.
English
The activity links to elements of the English Primary School Curriculum, for example, by allowing pupils to write for different purposes and different audiences, to write in a variety of genres appropriate to school and outside needs. It also allows pupils to explore and develop ideas and concepts through talk, directed discussion and writing and to organise, clarify, interpret and extend experience through oral language activity and writing.
Geography
The activity links to elements of the Geography Primary School Curriculum, for example, by allowing pupils to acquire an ability to understand, develop and use a growing range of maps and globes.
History
The activity links to elements of the History Primary School Curriculum, for example, by allowing pupils to study a range of people and events in the past in order to develop a balanced understanding of world history.
Maths at your local post office
Curriculum Links
The activity links to elements of the Junior Cycle Mathematics Curriculum, for example, by allowing students to engage in applications of numeracy to solve real life problems and to devise, select and use appropriate mathematical models, formulae or techniques to process information and to draw relevant conclusions.
John the An Post Postperson
Curriculum Links
The activity links to elements of the Junior Cycle Mathematics Curriculum, for example, by allowing students to use distance, time, weight, volume and money in an everyday context and to communicate mathematics in written form.
An Post Rás na mBan 2013
Curriculum Links
The activity links to elements of the Junior Cycle Mathematics Curriculum, for example, by allowing students to use every day examples of distance, speed and time and developing the ability to apply their mathematical knowledge and skill to solve problems in familiar and in unfamiliar contexts.
About An Post Rás 2012
Curriculum Links
The activity links to elements of the Junior Cycle Mathematics Curriculum, for example, by allowing students to collect, organise and represent data in a real context as well as looking at using a variety of summary statistics to describe data: central tendency – mean, median, mode, variability – range.