Money - Find the total - Worksheet

The 'Find the Total' worksheet from masterthecurriculum.co.uk is a comprehensive resource designed to enhance children's fluency and precision with money calculations. Aligned with the National Curriculum objective to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of measures, this worksheet offers differentiated activities and teaching slides to support learning. Students are tasked with adding various combinations of money, such as two-digit and two-digit amounts, two-digit and ones, two-digit and tens, and even three single-digit amounts. Through the use of different methods like counting on, partitioning, and regrouping, children develop an efficient strategy for calculating totals. Key vocabulary for the lesson includes terms like money, addition, count on, partitioning, regrouping, strategy, efficient, total, and amount.

As part of the lesson, children are encouraged to discuss and compare their methods for finding missing amounts, reflecting on the efficiency of different strategies. They are also prompted to create worded questions for their peers and identify the greatest amount they found. The worksheet includes a variety of tasks, such as completing tables that help to understand the combination of pounds and pence, and using the bar method for addition. The activities cater to different levels of understanding, from those working towards expectations to those who are ready for greater depth challenges. Critical thinking is fostered through reasoning and problem-solving sections, where students can apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios, such as making purchases with a given budget and exploring different combinations of coins and notes to create specific total amounts.