Year 6 Money Problems – 3 Lessons

This bundle contains three complete Year 6 money problem lessons, giving pupils varied opportunities to apply calculation skills to money in increasingly challenging contexts.

Across the three lessons, pupils solve problems involving:

✔ Finding missing prices and costs
✔ Working out the cost of individual items from a total
✔ Calculating change
✔ Comparing amounts spent
✔ Finding the greatest and least possible costs
✔ Solving multi-step money problems
✔ Working with combinations of items
✔ Applying percentage discounts
✔ Choosing appropriate calculations to solve problems

The lessons provide plenty of opportunities for pupils to develop mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills alongside their calculation skills.

What’s included?
✔ 3 complete Year 6 maths lessons
✔ Smart Notebook input slides
✔ Differentiated independent worksheets
✔ Plenary tasks

Ideal for
✔ Year 6 maths
✔ Money problem-solving
✔ SATs preparation
✔ Mathematical reasoning
✔ Maths intervention
✔ KS2 revision

Each lesson can be used independently or as part of a short sequence of lessons on money problems.

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