Spending pocket money

Spending pocket money

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This task is about counting money and working out change. 

   

Here are the coins Miriama got for her pocket money.
 
a) How much money did Miriama get? $__________
 
b) Miriama spent $2.70. Draw the coins she would have left.
   

 
 
 
 
 
  
 

c)    Max had these three coins. He spent 80c at the dairy. Draw the coins he would have left after he got his change.
    

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
   
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
money, addition, change, subtraction
Description of task: 
Students calculate the amount of money shown by diagrams of coins, then calculate change given when some of the money is spent.
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 and subtraction problems with money.
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: 

 

Y6 (08/2000)

a)

$3.80

easy

b)

$1, 10c

easy

c)

50c, 10c, 20c
or
50c, 10c, 10c, 10c

moderate
Diagnostic and formative information: 
  Common error Likely reason
b) $2, 50c, 20c What was spent, not what was left over.