A few coins

A few coins

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about identifying the least number of coins to make an amount.
 
Tick the boxes to show the least number of coins Mia could use if she needed these amounts of money.
The first one has been done for you.
 
  Choice of coins
 

  10c 20c 50c $1
Mia saved 70c        
Mia saved 30c        
Mia saved 80c        
Mia saved $1.10        
Mia saved $1.50        

 

Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
money, addition
Description of task: 
Students identify the least number of coins needed to make up specified amounts of money.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' ability to use basic facts and knowledge of place value and partitioning whole numbers to solve addition problems.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Additive thinking, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
  Y5 (06/1998)
  10c 20c 50c $1
Mia saved 70c   ​ tick.gif​  ​ tick.gif  
Mia saved 30c tick.gif tick.gif    
Mia saved 80c tick.gif tick.gif tick.gif  
Mia saved $1.10 tick.gif     tick.gif
Mia saved $1.50     tick.gif tick.gif
 

row 1 – very easy

row 2 – very easy

row 3 – very easy

row 4 – very easy

row 5 – very easy