Math Mammoth British Money

Math Mammoth British Money is a worktext that covers money-related topics usually encountered during years 2-4. The book contains both textbook explanations and exercises, and is designed to be very easy to teach from, requiring very little teacher preparation (you do need to find practise coins before the lessons). The book starts with year 2 topics, such as counting coins with pence-amounts and easy problems about change. These lessons use "p" as a symbol for pence. While these initial lessons use pictures for the coins, practising with real coins is, of course, even better, and you should have real money on hand to practise with. From there, the lessons advance toward year 3, and finally to year 4 topics, such as practising with pound amounts, and working out total amounts and change. Therefore, you can also let your child work the pages of this book in different time periods, and not go through it all at once, depending on your child's current level. Working out the Change explains two basic ways of working out the change: counting up, and subtracting (finding the difference). This is all done with mental maths. The next lesson also practises money problems using mental maths. In the last lesson we solve money problems by adding and subtracting money amounts vertically (in columns).