This activity will help your child to identify coins and compare their values.
Take a handful of coins from a pocket or purse, and place them in a pile on the table. Now help your child to sort them into different sets. Here are some ways that you could sort them:
• Are they gold, silver or brown?
• Are they big or small?
• Are the edges crinkly or smooth, or do they have straight bits?
• What is their value?
To help your child extend this activity, look more closely at the values of the coins, and put them in order. Explain that you can buy more with coins of greater value.
Good morning,
Maya discovered coins and their values this morning.
Well done Maya and what exactly did you discover?
Some coins are silver (50p,20p,10p,5p), some gold and silver (2 and 1 pounds) and some brown (2 and 1p).
Some are bigger than others. The 2 pounds ? coins are the biggest. The 5 pence coins are the smallest. The size order of the coins is :
2 pounds, 50 pence, 2 pence, 10 pence,20 pence,1p, and 5p.
The order by value is 2 pounds, 1 pound, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, and 1p.
The coins of 1p are smooth. Most of the others have straight bits.
We played with various items and the coins in pretending shopping ? to understand the values of the coins.
Well done Cesar, you have really been looking carefully at all of the different coins. I wonder why the size of each coin does not correlate with the value. Maybe you could find that out for me?
Hello reception
Enjoy your money activity..look forward to seeing your comments.
Hi Ms O’Connel,
I sorted 20p, 1p and 5p, per colour and value.
Well done Juliana.
There is
1p coin, 2p coin, 5p coin, 10p coin, 20p coin, 50p coin, 1 pound coin, 2 pound coin.
Silver- 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p
gold- 1 pound and 2 pound,
bronze – 1p and 2p
1p is the least amount of money and 2 pound is the most amount of money .
Well done Rocco, very impressed that you are using the words ‘least’ and ‘most’.
I enjoyed counting my coins.
Well done Mikey ??
Morning Miss, Ruby-Mae discovered her coins value. She found in mummys purse 5 gold coins and she discovered they are £1. She found 8 silver coins, which she sorted with mummys help into 2 of 10p, 4 of 5p, 2of 20p. Also she found 4 brown coins for the value of 4p. Mummys purse has 5pounds and 84p.
Good afternoon Ruby Mae. Good work on your coin sorting ??
Florence sorted all the coins, value seems to be a tricky concept so we are opening a penny sweet shop to help. ?
Good plan. I always learn faster when there’s food involved ?
1 penny is bronze,small and its edge is smooth.
2 pence is bronze, large and its edge is smooth.
5 pence is silver, small and its edge is crinkly.
10 pence is silver, large and its edge is crinkly.
20 pence is silver small and its edge is smooth.
50 pence is silver large and its edge is smooth.
1 pound is golden and silver, small and its edge is crinkly.
2 pounds is golden and silver, large and its edge is crinkly.
Well done -you have all been working hard.
The coins are different colours: golden orange and grey. They have pictures on them.
Two £1 coins is the same as one £2 coin.
Two 50p coins is the same as one £1 coin.
My mummy says she prefers notes!
Well done James. Nice to know that you mummy prefers notes.
Nico prefers the coin with a “big 1” written on it, because is like having a lot of the “small 1” coins.
Good work Nico. Nice to know the reason why you prefer the coin with a “big 1” on it.
I enjoyed this task, I learned the value of all the coins up to £2. I learned how to combine them to buy things (I worked out what coins I’d need to make up 137p (mum comment: still working on translating 100p to £1!). I also worked on getting change back when you buy something.
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Great job Marcus! Nice to know that you worked on getting change back.
We sorted all the coins by colour , size and shape. When we play shop again we will use real money as it’s quite hard to understand
Well done Luca. It will become easier every time you play shop.
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Hi Miss Savage, I have searched with my dad to understand why the size of the coins does not correlate with their values and have such different shapes and colours.
My understanding is that it was done to help blind people or those who cannot see very well.
The coins are grouped in pairs of the same colour or shape with one bigger than the other.
1p (small) with 2p (large) with a smooth edge and coloured brown,
5p (small) with 10p (large) with a rough edge and a silver colour,
20p (small) with 50p (large) with an angular edge and
£1 (small) with £2 (large) much thicker than the other coins with a silver and gold colour.
The contrast in size between the two coins in each pair, as well as the different textures of the edges and the colours make it much easier for people who do not see well to identify the coins.
Fantastic work Cesar!!! I am sure Miss Savage will be very impressed with it.
Brilliant Cesar, I think it also has something to do with the value of the metals that each coin is made from. Did you discover anything about that in your research?