Making Change
Calculating change from a purchase; working confidently with pounds and pence together; solving practical money problems involving addition and subtraction
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Teaching Table
Set out your lesson
Practise the bounded task in Making Change; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
Count in pence and use £1=100p.
Exact directed source edges retained; earlier authorship is not learner attainment.
These supplied stage cards
Scrap paper and pencil; oral/pointing response where appropriate
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.
Use the supplied screen cards; copying the exact task to paper is optional, not required.
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.
Fictional role-play only; no purchase, account or real financial record. Canonical comic example not counted as independently assessed.
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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Practise the bounded task in Making Change; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
Practise the bounded task in Making Change; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
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Check understanding
- Calculate the change from £5 when buying items costing pounds and pence
- Add two or three prices together to find a total cost
- Check whether they have been given the correct change in a role-play scenario
“If your child bought a comic for £2.75 and paid with a £5 note, could they work out they should get £2.25 back?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Life Skills
- Domain
- Money & Finance
- Age range
- Ages 7–9