School No. 1595 hosted a lesson organized by the Museum of the Bank of Russia

For the first time, a “Study Day at the Museum” was held within the walls of a Moscow school – on September 15, the Museum of the State Bank of Russia for the Central Federal District came to classes for the tenth graders of the “School in Nekrasovka”.

How many kilograms does a million ruble coins weigh, in which case paper banknotes must be disposed of, how to correctly use a bank card, in what way the storage of banknotes and coins was organized at different times, what is an investment account. The tenth-graders of the Moscow school No. 1595 in Nekrasovka tried to get answers to all these questions, to whom the museum of the Central Bank of Russia arrived with an exposition placed on several large trucks.

For the past five years, Moscow has run the School Day at the Museum program. It assumes that students, together with subject teachers, visit a variety of metropolitan museums. They have lessons there, where the guys master the educational material using the example of museum exhibits. This year, the Bank of Russia joined the project.

Bank employees, together with teachers of social studies, history, economics and mathematics of school No. 1959, held a lesson for students of the tenth business class, where they first talked about the formation of the Russian financial system, explained how to analyze economic information and make forecasts based on verified information. Then, using the example of exhibits brought – devices for counting and weighing money, devices for determining the authenticity of banknotes, they showed how to distinguish fake banknotes from real ones, why different cities are depicted on different banknotes of Russian rubles.

As part of practical exercises at a mathematics lesson, schoolchildren counted how many kilograms in a million ruble coins, weighed the cash trim, trying to calculate the amount of shredded banknotes by weight, determined which of the Soviet republics of the USSR in 1957 occupied 0.77% of the country’s area and how it reflected in the appearance of banknotes.

At the lesson of social science, tenth-graders studied the structure of the modern banking system in Russia and the main functions of the Central Bank. Dmitry Perin, an expert of the Main Directorate of the Bank of Russia for the Central Federal District, told them about the evolution of technical devices for counting and sorting cash, and also demonstrated the operation of the DORS 750 and ASM 1L machines – they were brought to the school from the museum. During the lesson on economics, schoolchildren were able to hold in their hands and carefully examine genuine money from different eras, with expert Olga Grigorieva to understand what role the revolution played in the fate of the State Bank and the monetary system of Russia, how prices changed, what and why were depicted on banknotes in different periods.

“Since September of this year, financial literacy has been included in the curriculum of such school subjects as computer science, mathematics, geography, social studies, and the world around us. From an early age, children need knowledge about where money comes from, how to handle finances competently and safely, and how to use a bank card. At an older age, schoolchildren study with interest how the financial system works, understand how historical processes affect the country’s economy, master the basics of entrepreneurship and learn to recognize financial scammers,” said Irina Timonicheva, Deputy Head of the Bank of Russia Main Directorate for the Central Federal District. “Our museum and exhibition fund has collected a lot of exhibits that allow you to touch history, see, for example, how money and technology for counting it changed over time, how banknotes and coins were stored at different times, what role the Bank played and continues to play Russia in the state system.

At the end of the lessons, the most attentive students received small prizes from experts from the Bank of Russia.

Mona Platonov.