Prior Knowledge Lesson

TITLE: Money Madness ORGANISING LEARNING AREA: Mathematics

YEAR LEVEL: 3/4 STRAND(S): Number and Algebra

LEARNING INTENTION:

To activate student’s prior knowledge of money

Specifically, their ability to find total cost and calculate change

CONTENT DESCRIPTOR:

Year 3: Represent money values in multiple ways and count the change required for simple transactions to the
nearest five cents ACMNA059

Year 4: Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five cents with and
without digital technologies ACMNA080

ACHIEVEMENT STANDARD:

Year 3: Students correctly count out change from financial transactions

Year 4: Students solve simple purchasing problems.

UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES: GENERAL CAPABILITIES:

Students will be able to: • Literacy

• Students can identify the money • Numeracy

values verbally, in concrete models
and symbolic notation • Information & Communication Technology Capability

• Students can perform addition and • Critical & Creative Thinking

subtraction equations using money • Personal & Social capability

• Ethical Understanding

• Intercultural Understanding
Time Teacher Action Student Action Resources required
11:10 Settle students on the floor as they Listen to story and make way in Class Novel “Tales of a
come in from recess from recess to settle Fourth Grade Nothing”
Read for 5 mins to wait for all student by Judy Bloom
to return from recess

11:15 Introduce Activity: - Listen to instruction - Promethean

Inform students of the new unit focus whilst sitting on the floor board
being money - Ask questions where - 30x My dream
Show students the lunch order task and needed lunch order
tell students template sheets
- the learning intention of the - 30x lunch bags
lesson is for me to see what - Pencils
you know about money about - 30x canteen
using money already… lists
- Scrap grid paper
Orient students with a familiar price list for working out
for the canteen and show example
made my teacher

Students will be asked to make their

dream lunch order using the canteen
list

They will record their lunch choices but

must be able to add up the total cost of
their lunch order

*this was done to ensure students are

making money transactions at levels
comfortable to them and shows where
differentiation will occur in later lessons

Students will also be asked to record

what notes and coins will be put in the
bag

Provide question time

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11:25 Develop - Decide what their dream - Glue
Allow students to move back to desks lunch order will be - Scissors
slowly and once they are all back in - Find total cost
their seats redirect with informing them - Decide what notes and
of the time they have to complete the coins they will need to
task buy this
- Record any change that
Move around the room to students that might be needed
may need help - Cut and paste lunch order
sheet onto lunch bag
11:40 Provide a 10 minute warning when the
they need to be packing up

11:50 Conclude - Students pack up - Bin

Inform students they need to start following teacher - Basket
packing up ensuring instructions
- All rubbish and paper scraps are - Wait on the floor once
in the bin room is tidy
- Their lunch orders are put in
the basket to be marked
- Their desks are clear and the
room is tidy
Once they have completed this they
need to sit on the floor and wait to be
walked over to Art
Lunch order form

My Dream Lunch Order What notes and coins are in the bag?
Amount Item Cost

Name: Total Cost Total Amount in What coins or notes would you receive as change?
bag

Change:

Please show all working out on grid paper and

place it in the lunch bag with your total amount Challenge…
Find another combination of notes and coins that would
equal the same total as those above.
Canteen Price List
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