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25.01.2022 Learning About Banknotes’ is an online primary school education resource developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia about Australia's banknotes through interactive games, activities and stories. You can find it here: https://www.smashmaths.com.au/number-and-algebra/money
24.01.2022 The Royal Australian Mint has a section of their website specifically developed for students and teachers with resources linked to the National Mathmatics Curriculum. See here https://www.ramint.gov.au/learning
23.01.2022 Money - Fun Fact - Australian coins are struck with an image of the queen on the reverse side. All 6 portraits of Her Majesty used on our money have faced to the right - the opposite of her predecessor. Source: https://www.ramint.gov.au/heads-or-tails-0
21.01.2022 The Royal Australian Mint is releasing a special $2 coin for the 30th Anniversary of Police Remembrance Day. More info: https://www.ramint.gov.au//30th-anniversary-police-remembr
12.01.2022 Teaching Australian money?
12.01.2022 The Reserve Bank has two money games (PC and mob compatible) on its website. You can find them here: https://www.smashmaths.com.au/number-and-algebra/money
10.01.2022 Australian dollar bills are printed in Craigieburn in Victoria. Australia also prints notes for other countries including: Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Nepal. Source https://www.rba.gov.au//annual/rba/2006/note-printing.html
09.01.2022 The Reserve Bank or Australia has an interactive site describing each of our notes: https://banknotes.rba.gov.au/banknote-features/
05.01.2022 Since 1969 there have been 31 different designs featured on the reverse of circulating 50 cent coins. Here they are: https://www.ramint.gov.au/fifty-cents. The Royal Australian mint celebrates 50 years of 50 cent coins this year by producing a gold version. It will cost $2,800.
03.01.2022 Fun Fact - The Dollar Sign The dollar sign is believed to have originated from old Spanish eight reale coins (the coins known to pirates as pieces of eight). The reverse of these coins features a pillar of Hercules with a ribbon wrapped around it looking very much like the $ symbol we now know so well. Source: The Royal Australian Mint https://www.ramint.gov.au/bite-sized/trivia
