Lesson Five – Shopping Receipts

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to calculate and record the amount of change that will be received when buying some different items from a shop to match a specific budget.

The class explain and model how to count on in different steps to support finding the difference between a pair of numbers for money amounts in pounds and pence.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to calculate and record the amount of change that will be received when buying some different items from a shop to match a specific budget

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to calculate and record change that will be received using counting on when buying different items to match a budget for money amounts to five pounds for core and extension ability levels and to two pounds for support ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to calculate and record change that will be received when buying different items from a shop to match a specific budget.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to add, subtract and convert money amounts between pounds and pence using informal written calculations when finding totals and change received on different shopping trips. 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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