Money — Year 2 Unit of Work
Money — Year 2 Unit of Work
Money — Year 2 is a comprehensive mathematics unit designed to develop accurate, practical understanding of Australian money. Students learn to recognise coin and note values, order and compare amounts, connect 100 cents with one dollar, count mixed collections, represent the same amount in different ways, and solve familiar shopping problems involving totals, affordability and change.
The sequence begins with a native, editable 22-slide teaching presentation. Two colour reference resources—the Australian Money Value Wall and Counting Money Strategy Mat—support classroom explanation and student independence. Piggy Bank Builders and Money Match Dominoes provide collaborative practice with making, matching and explaining amounts.
Six scaffolded worksheet sequences build from recognising and ordering coin values to counting coins and mixed money, constructing equivalent amounts, comparing values, and applying skills in a two-page class-shop investigation. Every worksheet page is followed immediately by its matching teacher answer page, with answers clearly shown in red.
A two-page Class Market Day assessment checks recognition, ordering, counting, equal representations, price totals, change and mathematical explanation. Matching answer pages and a five-level assessment rubric support consistent marking and feedback. A separate editable 22-slide quiz contains 10 questions, with each question immediately followed by its answer.
What's Included
- Editable 22-slide Money presentation
- Australian Money Value Wall colour display
- Counting Money Strategy Mat
- Piggy Bank Builders game board with 12 Money Cards and 8 Target Cards
- Money Match Dominoes instructions and 12 cut-apart dominoes
- Six scaffolded worksheet sequences with matching answers
- Editable 22-slide quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
- Two-page Class Market Day assessment with answers
- Five-level Money Assessment Rubric
- 26-page print-ready Unit Plan PDF
Learning Focus
- Identify Australian coins and notes by value
- Compare and order money values
- Understand that 100 cents equals one dollar
- Count collections using an efficient greatest-value-first strategy
- Record totals correctly in cents or dollars and cents
- Represent equivalent amounts in multiple ways
- Decide whether available money is sufficient for a purchase
- Calculate simple totals, differences and change
- Communicate money reasoning using values, equations and words
Curriculum Alignment
Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9M2N06
Format and Printing
The teaching presentation and quiz are editable PowerPoint files. The unit-plan resources are supplied as a 26-page print-ready PDF. Classroom displays, strategy material and games are in colour; worksheets, practice pages, assessment pages and the rubric use a deliberate low-ink black-and-white finish. Answer pages preserve the matching student page and add red answers in the response areas.
Digital Product and Licence
This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Licensed for use by the purchasing educator and their own classes. Redistribution, sharing or resale of the digital files is not permitted.