Buying Things
CONCEPTUALHow buying and selling works: prices, paying for items, receiving change; the basic transaction process in shops and markets
Mastery Evidence
- Explain what happens when you buy something in a shop (choose, pay, get change)
- Read a price label and say whether they have enough money to buy the item
- Act out a simple buying scenario using real or play coins
Assessment Prompt
“If [child] had a £2 coin and wanted to buy a snack for 80p, could they work out roughly how much change they'd get back?”
Prerequisites2
- Coins & NoteshardAges 5—7
- What Money IshardAges 5—7
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- Coins & Notes hard
Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions
- Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard
Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)
- How Many in Total? hard
Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)
- One-to-one counting hard
Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'
- Writing digits 0-9 hard
Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)
- What Money Is hard
Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes
Unlocks6
- Making ChangehardAges 7—9
- Fair Trade & EthicshardAges 7—9
- Ways to PayhardAges 7—9
- Advertising & SpendingsoftAges 7—9
- Budgeting Pocket MoneysoftAges 7—9
- How the Economy WorkshardAges 9—11