Year 4 Counting Money and Making Change

Teach students to count mixed Australian notes and coins, represent equivalent values, calculate and check change, and round cash totals with a complete, classroom-ready Year 4 unit.

The 18-slide editable presentation develops efficient strategies through worked examples and clear explanations. Students group equal denominations, use multiplication, combine note and coin subtotals, estimate and check totals, compare different money combinations, count up to find change, subtract to verify change, and apply nearest-five-cent cash rounding. An editable 22-slide quiz provides 10 question-and-answer pairs for review or formative assessment.

Six differentiated worksheets move from supported counting to mixed totals, equivalent representations, change, rounding and multi-step market problems. A colourful display, Money Builder Challenge, Change Quest board game, sports-carnival assessment, seven resource answer pages and a five-level rubric make the unit suitable for whole-class instruction, small groups, maths rotations, independent practice, revision and assessment.

What's included

• Counting Money and Making Change editable presentation — 18 slides
• Counting Money and Making Change editable quiz — 22 slides
• Unit plan PDF — 21 pages
• Smart Money Steps classroom display
• Money Builder Challenge mat and 12 challenge cards
• Change Quest board and 12 transaction cards
• Count It Efficiently – Support worksheet and answer page
• Mixed Money – Core Practice worksheet and answer page
• Same Value, Different Ways worksheet and answer page
• Make Change by Counting Up worksheet and answer page
• Round Cash Totals worksheet and answer page
• Community Market Shopping Challenge worksheet and answer page
• Weekend Sports Carnival Money Assessment and answer page
• Counting Money and Making Change Rubric
• Combined Preview PDF — 61 pages

Learning focus

• Efficiently count mixed Australian notes and coins.
• Group equal values and use multiplication.
• Represent the same amount in different ways.
• Calculate change using counting up and subtraction.
• Check answers with estimation and inverse strategies.
• Round cash totals to the nearest five cents.
• Solve and explain real-world transaction problems.

Classroom use

Use across approximately one school week for explicit teaching, guided practice, maths rotations, independent work, homework, revision or assessment. Select the supported worksheet for scaffolding and the equivalent-value and market challenges for deeper reasoning.

Formats and answers

PDF and editable PPTX. 61 pages/slides across the included teaching files: 21-page unit plan PDF, 18-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz. Seven resource answer pages and 10 quiz answer slides are included.

Teacher benefits

• Sequenced teaching, practice and assessment in one coherent unit.
• Supported and core tasks for flexible grouping.
• Hands-on games that practise exact money skills.
• Worked answers and a rubric for efficient feedback.
• Editable PowerPoint lesson and quiz files.
• Low-ink worksheets with clear response space.

Digital product and licence

Digital product only; no physical item is supplied. Purchase permits classroom use by the individual purchaser under Sukindi's standard licence. Do not resell, redistribute or post the files publicly.