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Giving Change

Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts

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Set out your lesson

Practise the bounded task in Giving Change; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.

Activity

Can add/subtract whole pence; money amounts are fictional.

Policy

Exact directed source edges retained; earlier authorship is not learner attainment.

Materials
  • These supplied stage cards

  • Scrap paper and pencil; oral/pointing response where appropriate

Sequence
  • Read readiness and decide on support without treating prerequisite authoring as learner readiness.

  • Open Show first and explain its model.

  • Use Guided Try with support and its separate adult key.

  • Close Show and guided keys before Try, unless this Try is explicitly supported.

  • Reflect on an actual attempt, including help used.

No Printer

Use the supplied screen cards; copying the exact task to paper is optional, not required.

Privacy

Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.

Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.

Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.

Teaching limits and safe use

These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.

  • Three-item invented transactions; not real cash handling or every denomination.

Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.

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Keep a record of your learning

Save photos, notes, and attendance. Export a proof packet for compliance or portfolio reviews.

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Check understanding

  • Calculate the total cost of two or three items priced in pounds and pence
  • Work out the change from £5 or £10
  • Record money calculations using £ and p notation correctly (e.g. £3.47)
“If your child buys a book for £3.50 and a pencil for £1.25 with a £5 note, can they work out exactly how much change they should receive?”

Curriculum record

Type
Procedural
Subject
Mathematics
Domain
Measurement
Age range
Ages 7–8

Standards

uk-nc-2013:Ma/KS2/Y3/M/3