CHILDREN learned about buying and selling while raising money for charity at their maths club last week.

The Capel Manor Primary School maths club is run by TV maths whizz Mr Numbervator, or Isaac Anoom, who tries to improve pupils’ confidence in maths with games and even a virtual stock exchange.

The club, which meets once a week for an hour, combined discussions on profit margins and bulk purchasing with sugar and treacle syrup, baking flapjacks which were then sold at the school to raise £34 for Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Prior to the sale, the children had worked out how many flapjacks they needed to sell to reach a £50 target and decided on an optimum selling price of 65p.

They also selected ingredients based on affordability and value.

The 9, 10 and 11-year-olds have been attending an after-school maths club since the start of the year.

Mr Anoom said: “At one stage the sales weren’t going very well they dropped the price and when they saw they weren’t selling well they put it back up, so I was very pleased with that.

“We have been looking at money and budgeting. They have just done a lot of questions on these things in their SATS, and they are just starting to understand about the value of money. This has opened up their minds to budgeting. Though children being children they couldn’t resist eating some of the completed project.”

Mr Anoom said he would like to expand the club and has contacted all primary schools in Enfield to gauge interest. However funding for the club, which is funded by a £5,800 grant from The Britannia Foundation (part of Britannia Building Society), runs out at the end of the summer term. Anyone interested in providing funding can contact Leonie Barnard, school business manager, on office@caplemanor.sch.uk