Money and Time
Money and Time brings together two Year 1-2 measurement skills: recognising UK coins and totalling amounts in pence, and reading clock times to the hour, half hour and quarter hour.
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Method
- Start concrete: use real coins (or a play set) for money, and a real analogue clock with hands the child can move by hand, for time.
- Move to pictorial: pictures of coins to add up on paper, and a drawn clock face for the child to mark or draw hands on.
- Only then go abstract: writing amounts with a p sign or a pound sign and decimal point, and writing digital times with a colon.
- For money, teach the child to order coins from biggest value to smallest before adding, rather than adding in whatever order they happen to be lying on the table.
- For time, teach the two hands separately at first: cover the minute hand and read the hour hand alone, then cover the hour hand and read the minute hand alone, before combining the two readings.
- Watch for the clock misconception: the hour hand sits BETWEEN two numbers at half past, not on either one, so children often name the hour by whichever number it looks closest to, reading half past 4 as 'half past 5'. The hour told is always the one just passed, never the one coming next.
- Watch for the money misconception: children often compare the NUMBER of coins rather than their value, believing three 2p coins must be worth more than one 5p coin simply because three is a bigger number than one.
Worked example
Rhys has a 20p coin, a 10p coin and a 2p coin. He wants to buy a sticker that costs 25p. Does he have enough money, and if so, how much change should he get?
- Order the coins from biggest to smallest value: 20p, 10p, 2p.
- Add the two biggest coins first: 20p + 10p = 30p.
- Add the last coin: 30p + 2p = 32p, so Rhys has 32p altogether.
- Compare the total to the price: 32p is more than 25p, so Rhys has enough money.
- Subtract to find the change: 32p - 25p = 7p change.
Practice questions
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Q1How many 5p coins have the same total value as one 20p coin?Show answer
Answer: 4 coins (5p x 4 = 20p)
Q2What is the fewest number of coins that make exactly 35p, using coins from 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p?Show answer
Answer: 3 coins: one 20p, one 10p and one 5p (20p + 10p + 5p = 35p)
Q3Oscar wants to pay exactly 90p using one 50p coin and some 20p coins. How many 20p coins does he need?Show answer
Answer: 2 coins (90p - 50p = 40p, and 40p is two 20p coins)
Q4A clock shows the hour hand just past 11 and the minute hand pointing at the 3. What time does it show?Show answer
Answer: Quarter past 11 (11:15)
Q5Write these three classroom clock times in order, starting with the earliest: half past 6, 9 o'clock, half past 3.Show answer
Answer: Half past 3, half past 6, 9 o'clock
Q6A clock reads 7:45 in digital numbers. Write this time using words.Show answer
Answer: Quarter to 8
Q7A toy costs 85p. Willa has saved 60p. How much more money does she need to buy the toy?Show answer
Answer: 25p (85p - 60p = 25p)
Exam-style questions
Written in the style of a KS1 Maths exam paper, with a full mark scheme.
Nia buys a pencil for 28p and a rubber for 19p. She pays with a 1 pound coin. How much change should she get? Show your working.
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An assembly runs from 9 o'clock to half past 9. A playtime runs from half past 10 to 11 o'clock. Which lasts longer, or are they the same length? Explain your answer.
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Dylan says a 2 pound coin must be worth more than five 50p coins, because a 2 pound coin is big and heavy. Is Dylan correct? Explain your answer using the value of the coins.
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