Solve problems including those involving giving change
I can solve money problems including those which involve giving change.
Solve problems including those involving giving change
I can solve money problems including those which involve giving change.
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Key learning points
- Strategies that are already known can be used to help when solving money problems.
- Addition and subtraction facts can also be used to solve money problems efficiently.
- A larger value coin or note can be used to pay if the correct amount cannot be made with coins or notes.
- When a larger value coin or note is used to pay, the extra money is given back as change.
Keywords
Change - Change is the money returned after paying for something with more money than it costs.
Common misconception
When subtracting, children may partition both parts into tens and ones then subtract which leads to an incorrect answer when the tens are bridged.
Explicitly discuss if the tens will be bridged before calculating and come to generalisation that, in subtracting, only one part is partitioned.
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