You buy a rubber for €1.30 and hand over a €2 coin at the till. How much change should the shopkeeper give you back? And could you count that change out to yourself, coin by coin, instead of taking the price away?
Watch how we find change by counting on from the price up to the money paid. The coins on the tray show counting on from the price up to what was handed over. Look for how we hop to the next whole euro first, then keep going.
Now look at a bigger one, where the change carries past a whole euro.
Today we build each change problem together on the coin tray. We start at the price and count on to the money paid:
The last one crosses several euro, so we hop to the next whole euro first.
In your maths copy, work out the change for two purchases, showing your count-on each time:
Write the hops you counted on, for example €1.20 → €1.50 → €2.
Now it is your turn to solve these, and each one is a step harder:
The last two cross several euro, so count on to the next whole euro before going further. Count on to find the change as usual — when the tool asks for the change in cent, write the whole-euro-and-cent change as cent, so €2.25 is written as 225c.
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