Adding money and giving change
Your child can make the same amount with different coins. They can make 50c as two 20c and a 10c, or as five 10c coins.
In curriculum terms
Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amount of money
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child needs to make exactly 30p, can they find two or three different ways to do it using different combinations of coins?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise the relationships between dollars and cents and represent money values in different ways
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.