Find how many ten pence coins are needed to make a given amount | Maths

Starter quiz

Jun has a set of 10 p coins. What could their total value be?

7 p

14 p

70 p ✓
There are 8 coins. Each coin has a value of 10 p. This is ___ p.

'80' ✓
Which items can be bought using only 10 p coins?
Jun wants to buy a packet of pencils which costs 40 p. Which set of coins would he use to pay for it?

Four 5 p coins

Four 10 p coins ✓

Two 10 p and two 5 p coins
Sofia counts backwards to check the value of the ten-spot tokens shown. Which of the following will she say?

40 p, 30 p, 20 p, 10 p. ✓

40 p, 20 p, 10 p.

4 p, 3 p, 2 p, 1p.
Jun picks up a handful of 10 p coins. He has less than 4 coins in his hand. What could the total value of his coins be?

40 p

30 p ✓

50 p

Exit quiz

An ice-cream costs the same as four 10 p coins. How much does it cost?

'40 p' ✓
A packet of pencils costs 50 p. Each child has a set of 10 p coins. Which child can afford to buy the pencils?
Match each price to the correct number of 10 p coins that would give that value.

50 p

⇔

Five 10 p coins ✓

30 p

⇔

Three 10 p coins ✓

70 p

⇔

Seven 10 p coins ✓
Jun has six 10 p coins. How many more 10 p coins will he need to buy the felt tips?

8

2 ✓

20
How many 10 p coins would be needed to pay for the eraser and the pencils?

'6' ✓
Sofia has some 10 p coins in her pocket. Their total value is more than 30p but less than 50p. How many coins does she have in her pocket?

'4' ✓

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Key learning points

Skip counting can be used to work out how many 10 p coins are needed to make a given value.
When you reach the value needed, you must stop counting.
The number of 10 p coins needed will be less than the value of the item.
Not all values can be made using only 10 p coins.

Common misconception

Children may confuse the number of coins with their value, so count in ones, or revert to counting in ones. They may have difficulty counting on to reach a value when some coins are already present.

Present situations where both 10 p and 1 p coins are used to reach the same amount to stress the difference in value. Compare sets of 1 p and 10 p coins with sets of 10 p coins drawing attention to the importance of the value of each coin.

Keywords

Ten-pence coin - A ten-pence coin is a unit of money used in the UK. It has the same value as ten one-pence coins.
10 p - The value represented by ten one-pence coins or one ten-pence coin.
Value - Where referring to money, value refers to how much something is worth.
Tens - Another name for the multiples of ten, or the decade numbers.