Year 4 Money: apply efficient strategies when calculating with money worksheet

“Whole pounds and the £ sign” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 maths unit “Money: apply efficient strategies when calculating with money”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 31 to 33 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Whole pounds and the £ sign

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can write whole amounts of money in pounds with the £ sign in front.

A Look back3 min

1.
3 tens and 6 ones make
2.
Count on in tens. 40, 50, 60,
3.
5,408 5,480

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola has four £1 coins. How much money does she have?

Watch me

Four £1 coins make four pounds.

Write it with the £ in front: £4.

With two decimal places: £4.00. Still say four pounds.

Now you

1.
Circle the correct way to write five pounds.
5££5

C Your turn5 min

Count the money in each picture, then write the total in pounds with the £ sign.

1.
These are ten 10p coins. How many pounds is that? Write it with £.
2.
These are ten 20p coins. How many pounds is that? Write it with £.
3.
Three £1 coins make how many pounds? Write it with £.
4.
Two £2 coins and one £1 coin make how many pounds? Write it with £.

Say it out loud: What changed from one picture to the next, and what stayed the same?

D Spot the mistake2 min

Ali says: “Five pounds is written 5£, because you say five first.”

1.
Circle the correct way to write this amount.
5££5

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Ten 10p coins make £1. How many 10p coins make seven pounds? Write the amount with the £ sign too.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Whole pounds and the £ sign · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 36

2. 70

3. < If your child picks the wrong sign, check the digits from the left. The hundreds match, so compare the tens: 0 is less than 8.

B

1. £5

C

1. £1 If your child writes 100, that is the total in pence, not pounds. Ask how many pence make one pound.

2. £2 If your child writes 200, that is the total in pence. Two hundred pence is two pounds, so write £2.

3. £3

4. £5

D

1. £5 The £ sign always goes in front of the number, like a price tag. Point to the first symbol and ask your child which one leads.

E

1. Look for: 70 coins, and writes £7 with the £ sign in front.

Words to use

Say“Which symbol goes first, the £ or the number? Show me how you know.”

Instead of“Just write it like this, it is obvious.”

After the sheet

Put four £1 coins or four piles of buttons on the table. Write the amount two ways, £4 and £4.00, and say “four pounds” each time.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

9 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Pounds and pence(with a plan)
Which amount is bigger?(with a plan)
Converting pounds and pence(with a plan)
Quick money totals(with a plan)
Change from a Note(with a plan)
Quick ways to add money(with a plan)
Smart ways to take away(with a plan)
Change for several items(with a plan)
Finding change with bars(with a plan)

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