Let's Go Shopping

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

Take your class on some virtual shopping trips to help them develop their understanding of money (and how to spend it!) with this complete Year 2 Maths scheme of work entitled, 'Let's Go Shopping'.

With detailed lesson plans, engaging slides, shopping worksheets and differentiated activities, this set of five lessons has everything you need to teach your class about this invaluable life skill.

#Lesson1AddingMoney

Develop skills for adding money by challenging your Year 2 children to choose and combine coins to reach a given total. This complete lesson planning pack includes counting money worksheets, counting coins games and differentiated money addition activities.

In this—the first of five 'Let's Go Shopping' lessons—children recap on the value of different coins, and how to use the symbols for pounds and pence. They are then challenged to identify and explain which coins, from a given selection, can be combined in order to pay exactly for an item. Children continue to practise this skill in their independent work. In the FSD? activity, children play a game of dominoes, combining different amounts of coins to see if they match given totals.

#Lesson2CountingCoinsCombinations

Teach your class about adding and counting coins of different values—and in different combinations—to make the same total with this ready-to-teach Year 2 Maths lesson planning pack.

During this lesson, children will learn that different combinations of coins can be used to make the same total. They will work in pairs or small groups to see how many different combinations of coins they can find to make a given total. In their independent activities, children will find different ways to pay for items of different prices. In the alternative activity, children are challenged to find all of the possible combinations of 1p, 2p and 5p coins to make either 6p, 7p, 8p, 9p or 10p.

#Lesson3OnaBudget

Teach your Year 2 class what a budget is, and what it's like to go shopping with a limited budget. This ready-to-teach lesson planning pack includes slides, a detailed lesson plan and differentiated shopping worksheets.

In this lesson (the third of five in 'Let's Go Shopping'), children find out what a budget is. They learn that they can spend less than their budget, but they cannot spend more than it. The 'MathDonalds' menu is used to discuss what can be bought with different budgets. In their independent activities, children use their mental addition skills of multiples of five and ten to buy lunch items, without exceeding the given budget. In the FSD? activity, children explore all of the different ice creams they could make with a given budget.

#Lesson4GivingChange

Teach your Year 2 class what change is, how it is worked out and how it can be given with different combinations of coins. This ready-to-teach Maths lesson planning pack includes slides, differentiated worksheets and activities.

In this lesson, children will learn what change is in the context of a purchase. They will use the counting on method and a number line to find the change for a range of different purchases. In their independent activities, children will indicate how much change is needed for different purchases by circling the correct coins. In the FSD? activity, children will work in small groups to match trios of cards showing a purchase, the coins paid with, and the change given.

#Lesson5MoneyWordProblems

This Year 2 money word problems lesson includes slides and differentiated word problem cards and worksheets for solving problems involving coins and money.

Money Word Problems' is the final lesson of five, making up a whole week's Maths teaching and learning about money. In this final lesson, children will use their knowledge of addition and subtraction, as well as their reasoning skills, to find the value of a missing coin or coins in a number sentence or word problem. In their independent activities, children will identify the 'lost' coin or coins from a given total amount of 'pocket money'. In the alternative activity, children may generate their own missing coin problems for a partner to solve.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• Year 2 - recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value
• Year 2 - find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money
• Year 2 - solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change