Money - Add money - Presentation

In a series of engaging activities designed to enhance understanding of money, students are encouraged to build on their knowledge of pounds and pence through practical addition exercises. The lesson begins with a discussion on the benefits of grouping coins to make a pound when adding different amounts of money. This foundational concept paves the way for a variety of tasks where students are tasked with adding sums of money, both in pounds and pence. For instance, they might encounter a problem such as 'There is £____ and 115p,' prompting them to convert pence to pounds and pence to find the total. The lesson also introduces the concept of using a part-whole model to add money, a visual method that supports students in understanding the composition of amounts.

Further activities challenge students to apply this part-whole model to more complex calculations, such as adding £4 and 55p to £3 and 60p, or £11 and 75p to £10 and 50p, and then converting any pence over 100 into pounds. The use of bar models is also incorporated, helping students visualise and solve problems involving the addition of two different sums of money. In a practical application of these skills, students are asked to calculate the total cost of items, such as a car and a wooden horse, fostering real-world connections. Reasoning tasks extend the learning, where students must determine if a given amount of money is sufficient to purchase items or compare expenditures, such as figuring out how much more one person spends on sweets compared to another. The lesson concludes with independent work, where students use the part-whole and bar models to find total amounts and show their workings, solidifying their understanding of adding money.