Which of the following examples can help the students in connecting their knowledge with the life outside the school? I. Going market with their parents and observing and participating in the way of buying and selling of goods and also understanding the approach of buyer and seller. II. A frog climbs 60 meters on a pole in a day and slides back 50 meters in a night. If the pole is 100 meters high, then how many days the frog will take to climb to the top

Which of the following examples can help the students in connecting their knowledge with the life outside the school? I. Going market with their parents and observing and participating in the way of buying and selling of goods and also understanding the approach of buyer and seller. II. A frog climbs 60 meters on a pole in a day and slides back 50 meters in a night. If the pole is 100 meters high, then how many days the frog will take to climb to the top Correct Answer Both I and II

Scope of connecting knowledge to life outside the school: 

• Market: Most of the students might have gone to a market with their parents. They must have observed and participated in the way of buying and selling of goods and also the approach of the buyer and seller. You should take the advantage of real situations and utilizing the experience of the students in the calculation of profit & loss, preparation of bills, process of weighting, counting of money, amount and price etc.
• Real-life: A frog climbs 30 meters on a pole in a day and slides back 20 meters in a night. If the pole is 70 meters high, then how many days the frog will take to climb to the top of the pole? Most of our students of upper primary classes may calculate the answer as 7. One student told the answer is 5 as the frog climbs 40 meters in 4 days and in the fifth day it reached on the top i.e. 70 meters. Students get opportunities to work in a natural setting, they work according to their own perceptions. So their real-life experience must take into consideration.
• Garden: Students prepare plots in home, schools and also in playing with peers. During that time they may not know counting, measurement, construction of angles, different types of geometrical figures, areas, different lines, average etc. but they may do it using their perception. You may share the experience of the students in these activities and it will be amazing to find out that they have already acquired a lot of mathematical concepts which requires slight refinement for acquiring formal knowledge and understanding of the concepts.  
• Making designs: Students covered their notebooks, paint pictures, decorate their houses, plants trees in garden, design their playing kits etc. Teacher must observe the process of making design and utilized it in the classroom.
• Festival: We celebrate many festivals in our homes as well as in our schools. Students heartily involved on the Independence day, Republic day, Teacher’s day, Children’s day, Saraswati puja, Ganesh puja, Id, Christmas etc. They involve themselves in different activities to make these special occasions memorable. They go to the market to buy various materials, decorate the school, distribute sweets, calculate expenditure etc. at that time they also learn mathematics.
• Playground: Students are playing Kabaddi, football, cricket, volleyball, basketball and also many indoor games. They frame their rules of their own, prepare playground in a group. Students construct Circles, Rectangles, Squares, triangles etc. In their playground without knowing the rules of construction. They count individual and group scores through their own strategies.

Hence, we conclude that both statements are examples that can help the students in connecting their knowledge with the life outside the school.