We are learning to work out the total cost, how I should pay and any change I should receive.

• I can use a variety of strategies to find a total of several amounts of money with or without jottings or written calculations.
• I can work out the total of several items, and how much change I should receive.

In Primary 6 this week we have been looking at key skills in relation to money. We have used our number talks strategies to help us add 2 or 3 prices of items together, to do this we used friendly numbers and partitioned numbers using ones and tens. Then we used counting on strategies to calculate the correct change.

We completed some written tasks using receipts, played games where we had to select items to purchase and entered the Sum Dog money week competition.

Help at home: Give your children the opportunity to use money in real like situations.

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/Images/Numeracy_MoneyEN_tcm4-825779.pdf