C Curriculum Explorer
Life Skills·Money & Finance·procedural

Making Change

Calculating change from a purchase; working confidently with pounds and pence together; solving practical money problems involving addition and subtraction

Suggested ages 7–9

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Evidence of understanding

  • Calculate the change from £5 when buying items costing pounds and pence
  • Add two or three prices together to find a total cost
  • Check whether they have been given the correct change in a role-play scenario

Assessment prompt

If Making Change bought a comic for £2.75 and paid with a £5 note, could they work out they should get £2.25 back?

Standards alignment

No external standards are linked to this topic.