Adding coins

Adding coins

Pencil and paper
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This task is about adding money.
a) Put a circle around the coins you would use to make up $1.60.
 
 

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b)
Put a circle around the coins you would use to make up $5.70.
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c)
A shopkeeper gave you 4 coins that added to $3.70.
 
Write down the 4 coins you were given.
 
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Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
2
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Description of task: 
Students identify the coins that 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 involving money.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
 

Y4 (11/1998)

a) Coins to value $1.60 very easy
b) Coins to value $5.70 very easy
c) $2, $1, 50c, 20c easy