A five-pence coin is a unit of money used in the UK. It has the same value as five one-pence coins.

Where referring to money, value refers to how much something is worth.

The value represented by five one-pence coins or one five-pence coin.

Calculate the total value of the coins in a set of 5 p coins

Maths

In this unit pupils will use knowledge of the value of coins and calculate the total value of the coins in a set of 2p 5p 10p coins. In the future unit pupils will consolidate their recognition and knowledge about the value of different denominations of coins. They will solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit.

In prior learning, pupils will have had opportunities to use manipulatives to organise counting including using everyday manipulatives, tens frames and through measures. In this unit pupils will use knowledge of the value of coins to calculate the total value of the coins in a set of 2p 5p and 10p coins.

Unitising and coin recognition - value of a set of coins

How many five-spot tokens would be needed to represent the coins shown?

If you collect the five-spot tokens to represent these 5 p coins, how many spots will there be?

There are 8 coins.
Each coin has a value of 5 p.
This is ___p

Sofia has four 5 p coins and Jun has two 10 p coins. Who has the most money?

Jun is using only 5 p coins to pay for an item. Which item can he buy?

45 p, 40 p, 35 p, 30 p, 25 p, 20 p, 15 p, 10 p, 5 p.

Sofia counts backwards to check the value of the 9 five-spot tokens. Which of the following will she say?

We can say
There are 6 coins.
Each coin has a value of 10 p.
This is ___ p.

Sofia has 50 p in her purse. All her coins are 10 p coins. Which coins are Sofia’s?

Aisha has some 10 p coins in her purse. The total value is 30 p. How many coins are in her pruse?

A set of 10 p coins have a value of 70 p. The children count backwards to check this is correct. Tick the correct count to check.

Match each set of coins correctly to their total value.

Starter Quiz