1 - Getting Started ~3 mins
This shiny gold-and-silver coin is not a cent coin at all: it is one euro, and it is worth a hundred cent!
Hands up: what could you buy with one euro in the shop?
2 - Watch and Notice ~8 mins
Three coin trays. Watch what each one shows.
The first tray holds just the €1 coin. Say its name with me: one euro. It is worth one hundred cent.
The second tray holds two 50c coins. Point to the first 50c: fifty. Point to the second: fifty more. That is one hundred cent. One hundred cent is the same as one euro, so we can swap the two 50c coins for the €1 coin. That swap is called a trade.
The third tray puts the €1 coin beside a single 1c coin. Notice how different they look, and how different they are worth.
3 - Try It Together ~8 mins
One pupil works the coin tray at the board. The rest of the class watches and, together, says whether each coin is a euro coin or a cent coin, and how much it is worth.
We will meet these four coins, one at a time: the €1 coin, a 50c, a 10c, and a 1c.
Euro or cent?
4 - Write One Euro in Your Copy ~2 mins
In your maths copy, write €1 and the words "one euro".
5 - Class Challenge ~9 mins
Today we work through these coin jobs together:
- Make one euro: find the €1 coin and put it on the tray
- Make 50c using the 50c coin
- Make one euro using only two 50c coins
Make one euro
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