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Downloadable Activity

Getting to Know Coins

Overall time

50 minutes

Theme

How to manage money

Introduction

Our Ed and Bunny digital game helps pupils to practise their coin recognition skills. This is a great activity if you want to continue bringing this to life in your classroom, or are looking for the perfect way to reinforce this topic before playing the game with your class.

Themes

This activity will cover the following themes from the Financial Education Planning Framework:

  • Becoming a critical consumer: choices about saving and spending
  • How to manage money: value of coins and notes
  • Becoming a critical consumer: wants and needs

Learning objectives

This activity will cover the following learning objectives from the Financial Education Planning Framework:

  • I know I have choices about saving and spending my money.
  • I know the value of the coins I use
  • I am beginning to understand I might run out of money unexpectedly if I don’t keep track of it.
  • I can recognise and choose the correct value of coins
  • I am beginning to understand that people may make different choices about how to save and spend money.
  • I can keep simple financial records

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