Pounds & Pence Notation
Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p) and combine amounts to make a particular value
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Set out your lesson
Read money notation without confusing pounds and pence.
Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.
Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.
Use drawn coin values, not real purchases. All amounts use UK pounds and pence.
Use the supplied stage cards on screen or scrap paper; adult key stays separate.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p) and combine amounts to make a particular value
Bounded objective: Read money notation without confusing pounds and pence. Supplied coin values; recognition of actual coins and fluent notation beyond these samples not established.
- partial: Write £1.50 or 150p correctly
£1.50/150p taught; T uses different price.
- partial: Combine coins to make a given total, e.g. 50p + 20p + 5p = 75p
Coin-value sums computed; real coin recognition not tested.
- partial: Read prices written with £ and p symbols
Selected prices read with unit distinctions.
- partial: If {{name}} picks up coins worth 50p, 20p, and 10p, can they write the total using the p symbol — and tell you if that's enough to buy something costing 75p?
Try offers new-items-calculation for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. Supplied coin values; recognition of actual coins and fluent notation beyond these samples not established.
Supplied coin values; recognition of actual coins and fluent notation beyond these samples not established.
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Read money notation without confusing pounds and pence.
Read money notation without confusing pounds and pence.
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Check understanding
- Write £1.50 or 150p correctly
- Combine coins to make a given total, e.g. 50p + 20p + 5p = 75p
- Read prices written with £ and p symbols
“If your child picks up coins worth 50p, 20p, and 10p, can they write the total using the p symbol — and tell you if that's enough to buy something costing 75p?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 6–7
Standards