Money and solving problems
Year 2 Spring 6
Find totals up to 50p using two or more coins
Previous learning
Core for Year 2
Extension
Understand and use these words:
Understand and begin to read these words:
Use, read and begin to write these words:
coin, penny, pence (p), pound (£), cost, costs more/less,
spend, total, pay, change, how much?
coin, penny, pence (p), pound (£), price, cost, costs
more/less, spend, total, pay, change, how much?
coin, silver, copper, note, pound (£), pence (p), price, cost,
spend, pay, change, total, value, how much?
Find totals up to 20p, e.g.
Find totals up to 50p, e.g.
Find totals up to £1, e.g.
• Jack has these coins.
• Li has these coins in a purse. How much is in Li’s purse?
• This is the money Tom has.
How much money has he altogether?
• Sam puts these coins in a box.
How much money does Tom have?
• A pear costs 15p more than an apple.
An apple costs 38p. What does a pear cost?
• Kate has these coins.
How much does he put in the box altogether?
How much does she have altogether?
• How much altogether is 6p and 7p and 5p?
• Chews cost 5p each. What do 3 chews cost?
• How much altogether is 16p and 12p and 7p?
• Rhian spent 24p. She spent 8p more than Amy.
How much did Amy spend?
• Iqbal spent 23p. Which two of these did he buy?
• Rosie had 15p. She spent 6p.
How much does she have left?
• How many 2p coins make 20p?
• Apples are 6p each. What do two apples cost?
Which two coins would pay for them exactly?
crisps
orange
lolly
cake
16p
18p
7p
9p
• Jade wants to buy a banana that costs 35p.
She has 20p. How much more money does she need?
• Tanya wants to buy a packet of cereal.
She gives the shopkeeper 55p.
The shopkeeper says:
‘You need 35p more to buy the cereal.’
How much does the cereal cost?
• Lee buys two of these things to eat.
He spends £1 altogether.
cake
burger
crisps
apple
40p
70p
50p
30p
Which two things does he buy?
Work out what coins can be used to pay an amount up to £1
Previous learning
Core for Year 2
Extension
Work out what coins can be used to pay up to 50p, e.g.
Work out what coins can be used to pay up to £1, e.g.
Work out what coins can be used to pay up to £5, e.g.
• Which three coins make 17p?
• Which five coins make 74p?
• Investigate different ways of using coins to pay 12p.
• Investigate ways of using silver coins to pay 50p.
• Alice saves a 10p coin each week.
How many weeks will it take her to save £2?
• A pencil costs 5p. Anna has 34p. She buys as many
pencils as she can. How much change will she get?
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Examples adapted from the Framework for teaching mathematics from Reception to Year 6, 1999
Use complements to multiples of 10 to find change up to 50p
Previous learning
Core for Year 2
Extension
Find change from 20p by counting up to the next multiple of
10p, and then on to 20p, e.g.
Find change from 50p by counting up to the next multiple of
10p, and then on to 50p, e.g.
Find change from £1 by counting up to the next multiple of
10p, and then on to 100p, e.g.
• Mark bought a pen for 7p.
How much change did he get from 20p?
• Patrick spent 36p.
How much change from 50p did he get?
• Dad bought three packets of sweets at 25p each.
What was his change from £1?
• Lucy bought four chews for 3p each.
How much change from 20p did she get?
• Ella bought a pen for 15p and an eraser for 12p.
What was her change from 50p?
• Sita had £1. She spent 82p.
How much money did she have left?
Solve problems by making an ordered list to find all possibilities
Previous learning
Core for Year 2
Extension
Find and record all the different ways to solve a problem by
making an ordered list.
Find and record all the different ways to solve a problem by
making an ordered list.
Find and record all the different ways to solve a problem by
making an ordered list.
Money investigations
Money investigations
Money investigations
• You have these coins. Choose three of them.
• What is the greatest total you could make using two
different coins?
What if you used three different coins?
• There are nine different way to make 45p using only silver
coins. Find them all.
• Which of these amounts can you pay using just one coin?
• Take ten cards numbered 0 to 9.
Find all the different totals you can make with three of the
coins. What if you can use a coin more than once?
• In how many different ways can you make 16p using three
or more coins?
Other mathematical investigations
• Which pins must Mark knock down to score exactly 6?
40p
50p
13p
52p
45p
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£1
Which can you pay using two coins?
Which can you pay using three coins?
• Here are some amounts of money.
Ring all the amounts that can be made with three coins.
71p
72p
73p
74p
75p
Other mathematical investigations
Find 2 different ways
Now find two different ways to score 7.
Other mathematical investigations
Pick three cards with a total of 12.
You can do it in 10 different ways. Try to find them all.
Now pick four cards with a total of 12.
How many different ways can you do it?
Can you pick five cards with a total of 12?
• Three chickens laid some eggs.
Each chicken laid an odd number of eggs.
Altogether they laid 19 eggs.
How many eggs did each chicken lay?
Find different ways to do it.
• How many rectangles of
different sizes are there
altogether in this diagram?
Examples adapted from the Framework for teaching mathematics from Reception to Year 6, 1999