Working through Equal Amounts (A) with your class or individual will ensure that they are confident with ‘unitising’, an essential skill for calculating with money. Understanding unitising when it comes to money, means your pupils know that one item can have a value other than one for example, that a 2p coin has the same value of 2 x 1p coins.

In Equal Amounts (A) students have eight sets of pairs of purses containing different coins and they must decide whether the purses contain an equal amount of money or not. Skip counting is not required in this version as purses that contain multiple coins are made up of 1p coins and the focus is on the concept of different coins having a different value.

Students will be recognising 1p, 2p, 5p & 10p coins throughout.