Money notation and units
Recognise and use the symbols and notation for the main and smaller units of the local currency (for example £ and p, or $ and c), knowing that 100 of the smaller unit make 1 of the main unit, and combine amounts to make a particular value
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Read money notation without confusing pounds and pence.
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Read money notation without confusing pounds and pence.
Read money notation without confusing pounds and pence.
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Illustrative Mathematics · Practice link — not the full lesson
Visiting the Arcade
Before you open · source notes
Arcade spending stories support money notation and units. Not every percent discount.
Free, no sign-in. A teacher solution is on the same page, so use the student view with your child.
Before you openAsk the learner to record one amount with the money unit and say what is left.
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Public Illustrative Mathematics task page. The .html address responds HTTP 308 to this URL. An anonymous GET of this URL on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. Where a teacher solution is present, it is on the same page as the student task; this check did not find a separate locked student view. An adult can use the student view section and should not read a solution aloud. Advertising was not observed in the fetched HTML text; that is not a browser, device, or ad-free guarantee. This is a paper or discussion task, not an automatically marked interactive game. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. Diagrams on the page use missing or filename-only alt text, so they are not an accessible image equivalent. Accessibility still depends on an adult describing the picture.
Illustrative Mathematics. “Visiting the Arcade.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- Write £1.50 as 150p, or $2.70 as 270c and 450c as $4.50
- Combine coins to make a given total, e.g. 50p + 20p + 5p = 75p, or show $3.60 in two different ways
- Read prices written with currency symbols, e.g. £3.45 or $3.45, as main units and smaller units
“If your child sees a price like £3.45 or $3.45, can they say what it means in pounds and pence (or dollars and cents) and write it another way, like 345p or 345c?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 3–9
Standards