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Modelling Money Problems gives Year 1 teachers a sequenced week of lessons focused on fair sharing and equal grouping. Students read a money story, build or draw the shares or groups, count accurately, record their thinking and check that equal groups match.

The unit begins with explicit teaching and a clear Share or Group? routine. Students then apply the strategy through toy-shop mats, the Coin Cafe Grouping Race, task cards, think-board work and differentiated printable practice. A two-page School Fair Money Challenge and matching rubric support evidence collection at the end of the sequence.

Colour display, activity and game pages are ready for classroom use. Worksheet, assessment and rubric pages are black and white for economical printing. Meaningful student pages have corresponding answer versions that reproduce the same layout with red ANSWERS labelling and red worked responses.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

- Modelling Money Problems editable presentation — 18 slides

- Modelling Money Problems editable quiz — 22 slides, including 10 questions and 10 answers

- 32-page unit plan

- Money Groups and Fair Shares Display — 1 page

- Share or Group? Reference Card — 1 page

- Toy Shop Fair-Share Activity — 2 pages

- Coin Cafe Grouping Race — 3 pages: board, total cards and play-money tokens

- Show the Money: Equal Groups Task Cards — 3 pages: two task-card sheets and a think board

- Fair Shares with $1 Coins — 2 worksheet pages

- Make Money Groups — 2 worksheet pages

- Shopper Share Stories — 1 worksheet page

- Group It at the Toy Shop — 1 worksheet page

- Read, Model, Draw, Solve — 2 worksheet pages

- School Fair Money Challenge — 2 assessment pages

- 10 matching worksheet/assessment answer pages

- Modelling Money Problems Rubric — 1 page

- Combined unit-plan, presentation and quiz preview PDF

LEARNING FOCUS

- Model equal sharing and equal grouping situations using money

- Find the amount in each equal share

- Find the combined total of equal groups

- Use diagrams, tokens, counting and repeated addition to show thinking

- Explain a strategy and check that groups or shares are equal

CLASSROOM USE

Use the presentation for five explicit-teaching and guided-practice lessons. Follow with the Toy Shop and Coin Cafe resources in whole-class, small-group or maths-centre rotations. Assign the worksheets for supported, core and extended practice, then use the School Fair Money Challenge and rubric for assessment evidence. The editable quiz works well as a whole-class review or end-of-unit check.

YEAR, SUBJECT AND TOPIC

Year level: Year 1

Subject: Mathematics

Topic: Money problems; equal sharing; equal grouping; financial literacy

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Australian Curriculum v9: AC9M1N05

Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACMNA015; ACMNA013

Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2M1N05

NSW Curriculum: MA1-CSQ-01

Western Australian Curriculum: ACMNA015; ACMNA013

United States Common Core: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.2; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.C.4; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.B.3; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.C.6; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.3; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.4; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.5; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.6; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.D.7; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.D.8

United Kingdom: UK-KS1-Y2-MATH-N-A; UK-KS1-Y2-MATH-M

New Zealand: NZ-Y2-MATH-NUM-OP-3; NZ-Y2-MATH-NUM-FM-1; NZ-Y2-MATH-NUM-OP-1; NZ-Y2-MATH-NUM-OP-5

Texas: TEKS-MATH-G1-1A; TEKS-MATH-G1-1B; TEKS-MATH-G1-1C; TEKS-MATH-G1-1D; TEKS-MATH-G1-1E; TEKS-MATH-G1-2A; TEKS-MATH-G1-3B; TEKS-MATH-G1-3E; TEKS-MATH-G1-3F; TEKS-MATH-G1-4A; TEKS-MATH-G1-4B; TEKS-MATH-G1-4C; TEKS-MATH-G1-5D; TEKS-MATH-G1-5F; TEKS-MATH-G1-9A; TEKS-MATH-G1-9B; TEKS-MATH-G1-9C; TEKS-MATH-G1-9D

Ontario: CAN-G1-MATH-B2.4; CAN-G1-MATH-B2.3; CAN-G1-MATH-F1.1; CAN-G1-MATH-B2.1

FORMATS, PAGE COUNT AND ANSWERS

Formats: Editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and PDF, with a clean Table of Contents JPG for approved product imagery

Unit plan: 32 pages

Presentation: 18 slides

Quiz: 22 slides

Combined preview: 72 pages

Answer status: 10 worksheet/assessment answer pages and 10 quiz answer slides included

TEACHER BENEFITS

- Provides a full, sequenced week rather than isolated practice pages

- Keeps the teaching language consistent across slides, games, worksheets and assessment

- Includes hands-on and printable options for whole-class, small-group and independent work

- Supplies matching answer pages and a rubric for efficient checking and evidence collection

- Uses editable native PowerPoint text in the presentation and quiz

DIGITAL PRODUCT AND LICENCE NOTE

This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. Purchase grants a single-classroom/single-teacher licence. The purchaser may print and use the resource with their own students. Files may not be resold, redistributed, publicly posted or placed on shared drives accessible beyond the licensed classroom.