Low cost teaching aids are materials developed from locally available and inexpensive resources to facilitate learning in the classroom. Such aids include using discarded glass, dates after eating to practice counting, and paper for making shapes. They are important as supplementary tools for subjects like mathematics. Examples provided are numbering cut out carton pieces 0-9 for counting practice and using origami folds to illustrate geometry concepts. Paper cutting and folding allow hands-on exploration of shapes and transformations while being inexpensive materials. Teachers should incorporate these low-cost aids to address shortages and make mathematics lessons more engaging.

1. Curriculum on
mathematics education
Submitted by
M.Kaviya
19USDH006
II B.Ed Special Education(HI)&Mathematics

2. LOW COST TEACHING AIDS -
PAPER CUTTING AND PAPER
FOLDING

3. Definition of low cost teaching aids:
Low cost teaching aids are those which are
available at cheap price or low cost and developed by
locally available resources and expedite the process of
learning in the classroom.
These are sometime developed by un-useful materials
and help teachers in making teaching interesting and
concrete.

4. Low - cost teaching aids involve minimal or
nil input costs as they are made from household
waste and discarded items or from materials readily
available in our immediate surroundings and natural
environments.

5. Example of low cost materials:
We can reuse many things which are easily available for
example:
• Disposable glass for making different thing.
• Dates easily purchase on very low cost eat it and
then its ghutli use for counting purpose.
• Cards and papers making circle and other shapes.

6. Importance of low cost teaching aids:
• Low cost teaching aids are used at nursery,primary,
middle, secondary schools.
• Low cost teaching aid use for supplementary and
illustrative education in mathematics.
• It is most suitable for subjects like science,
geography, mathematics, crafts and arts.

7. Uses of low cost teaching aids:
• Low cost teaching aids are available for various topics in
mathematics.
• There are more low cost teaching aids used in lower
primary than upper primary classes.
• All Schools and classes that integrated low cost materials
with commercials materials, their performance was better
than schools and classes that were not using low cost
materials.

8. Advantages of low cost teaching aids:
1. Cheapness
2. No fear of loss
3. Proper use
4. Maintenance and repair

9. 5. Self reliance
6. Helpful for teacher
7. Active method, group method,fun
8. Strength
9. Interaction among students as well as teachers

10. Examples of low cost teaching aids:
We have cut nine piece of plain old packaging
cartons and we write 0 to 9 on them so its helpful to
learn counting to primary classes. We call and told
them to write in the pieces.

12. Paper folding:
Paper folding is the art or process of folding
squares of colored paper into representative shapes.
Origami, also called paper folding, art of folding
objects out of paper to create both two-dimensional
and three-dimensional subjects.

13. • Paper folding not only simplifies the learning of
mathematics—it also builds an experiential base
necessary for further learning.
• The concepts and ideas of motion, or transformation,
geometry are becoming standard fare for the
mathematics curriculum.
• Paper folding offers many opportunities for illustrating
these ideas.

15. Paper cutting:
"Paper Cutting is a process in which a piece of
paper (of any shape) is folded along a certain
direction and then cuts are made into it."

16. Conclusion:
Teachers should use low cost materials to solve the
problem of scarcity of teaching and learning aids to
improve mathematics in and out side the classroom.
Such findings raise the levels of use of low cost
materials in the instructional process of mathematics and
reduce on teacher centered lessons.

17. Thank you