Giving Change
Your child can add and subtract money and give change in dollars and cents. From $5, a $3.50 book and $1.25 pencil leave 25c.
In curriculum terms
Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts
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If your child buys a book for £3.50 and a pencil for £1.25 with a £5 note, can they work out exactly how much change they should receive?
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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 · 3 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise the relationships between dollars and cents and represent money values in different ways
use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations, including money transactions; represent situations and choose calculation strategies; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation
use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive situations, including simple money transactions; represent the situations with diagrams, physical and virtual materials, and use calculation strategies to solve the problem
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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