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🪙 Counting Money and Making Change

Get to know coins, add them up to find a total, and work out the change by counting on.

lessons

~20 min

to learn

🔢 Math

subject

Ages 6–12

level

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What you’ll learn

Coins We UseRecognise common coins and know that 100 pennies make £1.Each coin has its own value, from 1p up to 50p. The bigger the number, the more the coin is worth, and 100 pennies together make exactly one pound (£1).
Counting CoinsAdd coins to find a total and decide if an amount is enough to buy something.To count money, add the coins together, starting with the biggest. Comparing your total to a price tells you whether you have enough to buy the item.
Making Change by Counting UpFind change by counting up from the price to the amount paid.Change is the extra money you get back when you pay more than the price. Instead of taking away, count up from the price to what you paid — the size of that hop is the change.
Money PracticeCombine counting coins and counting up to solve everyday money problems.Putting it together: name your coins, add them into a total, and count up to find change. These are exactly the money skills used in real shops every day.

Questions this course answers

A rubber costs 45p. You pay with a 50p coin. What is your change?

Counting up from 45p to 50p is a hop of 5p, so the change is 5p.

A toy costs 30p and you pay 50p. How much change do you get back?

Counting up from 30p to 50p is 20p, so the change is 20p.

Which of these coins is worth the most?

50p is a larger value than 20p, 10p, or 5p.

You have a 20p, a 20p, and a 10p coin. How much money is that?

20p and 20p make 40p, and 10p more makes 50p.

Grounded in trusted sources

Khan Academy Kids
BBC Bitesize — KS1 Maths
PBS Kids — early math
Britannica Kids

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