Primary Maths • Years 0–6
Money Resources
Count money, find totals and work out change.
Maths at a glance
See the idea
Add money$2 + $5 = $7
Find change$8 − $3 = $5
Decimal money$12.50
Multi-step$20 − $13.75
Learning pathway
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Key skills
What learners practise
recognising and comparing currency valuescounting collections of coins and notescalculating totals and changereading dollars-and-cents notationusing decimals in money contextssolving discounts and multi-step problems
Teaching tips
- Use real or classroom currency images so learners can connect written amounts with physical values.
- Ask learners to make the same amount in more than one way.
- Estimate a total before calculating it, then check whether the exact answer is reasonable.
Ready to practise?
Open the Year 0–6 lesson pathway.