Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to practise selecting and adding pairs of money amounts to ten pence to calculate the cost of buying cards for friends and family and worksheets to identify and record the numbers of pennies that can match different money amounts to show the cost of different Christmas cards.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add pairs of single digit numbers to calculate the cost of buying cards for friends and family.

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.