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Curriculum content descriptions

recognise the relationships between dollars and cents and represent money values in different ways (AC9M3M06)

Elaborations

investigating the relationship between dollars and cents, using physical or virtual materials to make different combinations of the same amount of money
representing money amounts in different ways using knowledge of part-part-whole relationships; for example, knowing that $\$1$ is equal to $100$ cents; representing $\$1.85$ as $\$1 + 50$c $+ 20$c$ + 10$c $+ 5$c or $50$c $+ 50$c $+ 50$c $+ 10$c $+ 10$c $+ 10$c$ + 5$c; when calculating change from buying an item for $\$1.30$ from $\$2$, starting from $\$1.30$ add $20$c and $50$c which gives $\$2$
representing money values in multiple ways when role-playing money transactions; for example, using play money to represent the coins and dollars you could use to pay for items

General capabilities

Numeracy

ScOT terms

Money

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