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Understanding Australian coins

Students understand what Australian coins look like, their value and their purpose. They identify and describe the features and value of Australian coins and make simple calculations using coins.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 1, Year 2
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning
Keywords	coins, Australian money, financial literacy
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	HASS, The Arts, Technologies
Strand and focus	Number, Algebra
Topics	Mathematical modelling, Money and financial mathematics
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M1A01 Recognise, continue and create pattern sequences, with numbers, symbols, shapes and objects, formed by skip counting, initially by twos, fives and tens AC9M1N06 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving equal sharing and grouping; represent the situations with diagrams, physical and virtual materials, and use calculation strategies to solve the problem AC9M2N04 Add and subtract one- and two-digit numbers, representing problems using number sentences and solve using part-part-whole reasoning and a variety of calculation strategies
Numeracy progression	Counting processes (P6) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P3) Multiplicative strategies (P2)
Copyright details
Organisation	ASIC
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