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
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.