Money Market

What your child will figure out

• Read printed coin and note values, then count mixed sets by grouping and adding every value once.
• Build exact payments in multiple efficient ways and explain why different combinations can be equivalent.
• Move fluently between pence and pounds-and-pence amounts, including totals above £1.
• Find change and money remaining as the difference between a price or spend and the amount available.

The levels

1. Meet the coins

   Predict a coin's value, inspect its face, and explain that the printed number tells its value.

2. Spot the silver coin

   Use the printed 50p label instead of colour or size to identify a less familiar coin.

3. Count the basket

   Count every value in a four-coin set, observe the till total, and explain the sum.

4. Count a busy till

   Group and total five mixed denominations efficiently without using coin count or the largest coin as the answer.

5. Pay for the picnic

   Build and check an exact 17p payment by combining coin values.

6. Another way to pay

   Compose 30p without a 20p coin to show that different coin combinations can be equivalent.

7. Pounds and pence

   Treat £1.35 as 100p plus 35p and build the amount exactly.

8. Choose efficient coins

   Use larger denominations to compose £2.75 efficiently while checking total value.

9. The change challenge

   Transfer value-adding to make 7p change from 20p paid for a 13p item.

10. Change from a pound

    Bridge through a round 100p boundary to find 32p change from £1.

11. Plan a £5 budget

    Apply difference to find and build £1.53 remaining after spending £3.47 from £5.

12. Run the festival stall

    Transfer all prior strategies to make £3.62 change from £10 for a £6.38 order.