Lesson: Counting Money: Pounds Mathematics

Students will be able to

• identify and use the pound symbol (£), recognizing that it is written before the monetary value,
• recognize that coins and notes are used to represent amounts in pounds,
• use models to count in 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, and 20s to find the value of a group of notes,
• group the same coins or notes when counting multiple denominations of money,
• order coins and notes from largest to smallest to aid counting.