L2 Add Amounts of Money

Description

Develop your Year 3 pupils’ confidence in adding amounts of money with this engaging Money Lesson 2: Add Money resource. Designed for the Year 3 Summer Money unit, this practical lesson helps children apply addition skills in real-life money contexts while building fluency with pounds and pence.

Using interactive teaching slides and hands-on activities, pupils explore different ways to combine coins to make a given amount before progressing to adding the cost of multiple items. Children are encouraged to choose and apply efficient addition strategies, including known number facts, partitioning and the formal written method, depending on the calculation. As amounts exceed 99p, they learn how to convert pence into pounds and pence, strengthening their understanding of place value and the relationship between the two units.

The lesson includes a practical shopping activity where pupils calculate the total cost of selected items and solve budgeting challenges, helping them apply maths in meaningful everyday situations. Discussion prompts, key questions and assessment opportunities encourage mathematical reasoning and expose common misconceptions, such as leaving answers in pence instead of converting to pounds and pence or confusing the value of different units.

Ideal for whole-class teaching, this low-preparation lesson supports the Year 3 National Curriculum objective to add and subtract amounts of money using both pounds (£) and pence (p) in practical contexts while developing financial literacy and problem-solving skills.

What’s included:

Interactive teaching presentation
Practical shopping and addition activities
Discussion and reasoning opportunities
Key questions and assessment guidance
Common misconceptions to address
Teacher notes and lesson structure

Perfect for:

Year 3 Money
Adding money
Pounds and pence
British currency
Financial literacy
Practical maths lessons
KS2 maths
Summer term planning