Money - Add Money - Starter

The 'Add Money' starter exercise is a practical maths activity designed for Year 4 students during their Summer Term, specifically on Week 3, Day 5. The task begins with converting amounts in pence to pounds and pence, helping students to understand the relationship between the two units. For example, they are asked to express amounts like 356p and 499p in terms of pounds and pence, which would be £3.56 and £4.99 respectively. This exercise not only reinforces place value and decimal understanding but also practical money handling skills.

In addition to currency conversion, the activity includes a sequence of arithmetic operations where students practice adding hundreds, ones, and subtracting tens from given numbers. For instance, starting with the number 1,000, they are instructed to add 9 hundreds to arrive at 6,180, then add 6 ones to reach 6,186, and subsequently subtract 4 tens to get 6,140. Furthermore, the task encourages students to place decimals on a number line, enhancing their understanding of number sequences and the position of decimals. They are given numbers such as 8.4, 11.6, and 11.0 and asked to accurately position them between the whole numbers 8 and 12, which helps to develop their number sense and decimal placement skills.