Lesson Three – Christmas Gifts
This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to calculate and record the cost of buying pairs of Christmas gifts for members of a family using money amounts to ten pence.
The class can practise using concrete objects and diagrams to model counting on when adding pairs of numbers to ten to find the total cost of each pair of gifts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to calculate and record the cost of buying pairs of Christmas gifts for members of a family using money amounts to ten pence
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to practise selecting and adding pairs of money amounts that make different sums to ten pence and worksheets to identify and record the numbers of pennies that can match different money amounts.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to calculate the cost of buying pairs of gifts for members of a family using money amounts to ten pence.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to solve a range of money problems about different things that families might need to buy to celebrate Christmas by adding money amounts within twenty. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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