Primary 1 Money
Read the value on each coin or note, then count on to find the total amount.
Keywords
Read the value on each coin or note before counting the total.
- Coin
- A piece of money with its value shown in cents or dollars.
- Note
- A banknote with its dollar value printed on it.
- Cent (¢)
- A smaller unit of money. 100 cents make 1 dollar.
- Dollar ($)
- A unit of money; $1 is the same amount as 100¢.
- Value
- How much one coin or note is worth.
- Amount
- How much money there is altogether.
- Count on
- Start with one value and add the next value to the running total.
Count cents up to $1
Look at the number on each coin. Count the coins from left to right, saying the running total aloud. 100¢ makes $1. The coin pictures below come from Zairoo's approved money questions.
How many cents are shown?
Parent prompt: “What is the first coin worth? What total do we get when we count on the next coin?” Ask your child to point to each coin as they say the new total.
Common mistake: Counting four coins as “4¢” instead of adding their values. Remind your child that the number of coins and the amount of money are different.
Count dollars up to $100
Read the value printed on each note. Start with the largest note and count on in dollars. A coin marked $1 is one dollar; a note marked $50 is fifty dollars.
How many dollars are shown?
Parent prompt: “Why do we say fifty, then sixty, rather than one, two?” Have your child point to the printed value on each note and say the running total.
Common mistake: Reading a $50 note as $5 or counting each note as one dollar. Check the dollar sign and all the digits before adding.