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Mathematics / Year 3 / Number and Algebra / Money and financial mathematics

Curriculum content descriptions

Represent money values in multiple ways and count the change required for simple transactions to the nearest five cents (ACMNA059)

Elaborations
  • recognising the relationship between dollars and cents, and that not all countries use these denominations and divisions (for example Japanese Yen)
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Money,  Purchasing

Interactive

MoneySmart: helping out

This is an activity about making choices to raise money for imaginary animals called gumbutangs. Their habitat is being eradicated and something must be done to save them. The user's first choice is between two websites, one a trusted one, the other a scam site. Then they are given choices about how to raise money for the ...

Interactive

Australian coin history

This interactive slideshow from the Royal Australian Mint provides a series of high resolution images and brief descriptions of currencies from Indigenous barter systems to modern Australian currency. A downloadable fact sheet on Australian coin history is accessible from selected pages within the slideshow.

Interactive

Decimal currency

This interactive slideshow from the Royal Australian Mint provides a series of high resolution images and brief descriptions of the transition from pre-decimal to decimal currency in Australia.