Year 3 Counting Money and Making Change Unit
Year 3 Counting Money and Making Change Unit
Help Year 3 students count Australian coins and notes, represent equal values in different ways and calculate change with confidence. This complete unit combines explicit teaching with practical, classroom-ready application.
Begin with the editable presentation and two clear classroom displays, then consolidate learning through Money Match Market, Change Quest and six worksheet sets. The Classroom Shop and three-page Market Day assessment place money skills in familiar shopping contexts. Matching answer pages support efficient marking, while the five-level rubric provides a consistent overview of student achievement.
Learning focus and classroom use
Designed for Year 3 mathematics lessons, small-group consolidation, independent practice and assessment. Students identify and order Australian money values, count mixed amounts, make equivalent combinations, compare dollars and cents, calculate change by counting on or subtraction, and explain their reasoning in practical shopping contexts.
What's included
1. Presentation: Counting Money and Making Change — 22 editable slides
2. Classroom Display: Australian Money: Coins and Notes
3. Classroom Display: Making Change
4. Game 1: Money Match Market — 5 colour pages
5. Game 2: Change Quest — 3 colour pages
6. Worksheet 1: Count the Coins — student page and answer page
7. Worksheet 2: Make the Amount — student page and answer page
8. Worksheet 3: Same Value, Different Ways — student page and answer page
9. Worksheet 4: Change by Counting On — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
10. Worksheet 5: Change by Subtracting — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
11. Worksheet 6: The Classroom Shop — student page and answer page
12. Quiz: Counting Money and Making Change — 22 editable slides with 10 question-and-answer pairs
13. Assessment: Market Day Money Assessment — 3 student pages and 3 answer pages
14. Rubric: Counting Money and Making Change Rubric — 1 landscape page
Files included
- 34-page unit plan PDF
- Editable 22-slide PowerPoint presentation
- Editable 22-slide PowerPoint quiz
- 78-page combined Preview PDF
Answer support
Answer material is included: 8 matching worksheet answer pages, 3 matching assessment answer pages and quiz answer slides. Red answers are positioned in the corresponding student response spaces.
Teacher benefits
Editable teaching and quiz slides support explicit instruction and whole-class review. Ready-to-print student pages, matching red-answer pages and a five-level rubric make practice, feedback and assessment efficient.
Terms of use
Digital teaching resource for the purchasing teacher's own classroom use. Do not resell, redistribute, share publicly or claim the files as your own.