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Year 3 · Maths
Add subtract money in Year 3 Maths
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Focus on adding and subtracting money and giving change. Start with “Calculate Change from £5, £10 and £20”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 3 learners practise adding and subtracting money and giving change.
The activities include Calculate Change from £5, £10 and £20, Calculate How Much Things Cost, Calculate the Cost of Items, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, practice, teaching-practice. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
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- Calculate Change from £5, £10 and £20
- Calculate How Much Things Cost
- Calculate the Cost of Items
- Count Change from £5, £10 and £20
- Count How Many Pence
- Give Change from 50p
- Partition Money into £1, 10p and 1p Coins
- Work Out Change
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Getting Change
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Add Money
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Pounds and Pence
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Year 3 Maths: Finding change using a number line
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PlanIt Maths Year 3 Measurement Lesson Pack 6: Give Change
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Money: Calculating Change Colour by Number
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Addition and Subtraction with Change British Money Maths Challenge Cards
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Place Value and Coins - Pounds and Pence Activity Sheets
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Money: Change from 50p Activity Sheet
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Year 3 Find Change Teaching Pack
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Year 3 Pounds and Pence Teaching Pack
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