Video Transcript
Which note is worth more?
Now these might just look like
rectangles with pretty designs on to you. But in real life, these rectangles
are notes. A note is a type of money. These two notes used to be made out
of paper, but nowadays they’re made out of a very, very thin plastic, and they’re
worth something. They have a value. Now in this question, we’re asked
which of these two notes is worth more? Can you see what number is in the
corner of our first note? A one followed by a zero is the
number 10, isn’t it? And if we look carefully, we can
see the number 10 in lots of places on this note. It’s even labeled, 10 pounds. So we know that this first note has
a value of 10 pounds. Let’s use a number line to show
where the number 10 belongs.
Now let’s look at our second
note. Can you see which number appears
again and again on this note? It’s the number five. This note has a value of five
pounds. Let’s mark the number five on our
number line. So which note is worth more, the
10-pound note or the five-pound note? Well, this is where our number line
can help us. We know that the number 10 is
greater than the number five. It comes after it on the number
line. It’s a larger number. And so if we have 10 pounds, this
is a larger number of pounds than five pounds. It’s more money. Even though these two notes look
like similar sizes, one is worth more than the other. The note that is worth more is the
10-pound note.
