Support your students in building flexible money skills with our Creating Equivalent Money Values Worksheets! This practical and engaging resource helps learners explore multiple ways to represent money values using different combinations of Australian coins. By practising this important skill, students will strengthen their number sense, deepen their understanding of money equivalence, and build strong financial literacy foundations.

Each worksheet is designed to give students rich opportunities for problem-solving and creativity with coin combinations. In the first section, students are challenged to create two different combinations of coins to represent a given amount. In the second section, they must think strategically to represent an amount in two ways: once with the fewest possible coins and once with the most. This encourages flexible thinking and supports the development of efficient and accurate money strategies.

Creating Equivalent Money Values Worksheets can be used during whole-class maths lessons, small group learning, or as an independent activity. Whether used as part of your financial literacy rotations, a differentiated maths task, or an extension activity for early finishers, this resource will help your students develop confidence and fluency when working with money in real-world contexts.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise and represent equivalent money values using different combinations of coins
• ✅ Develop mental addition and skip counting strategies
• ✅ Practise efficient and flexible approaches to combining coins
• ✅ Strengthen problem-solving and reasoning skills
• ✅ Build confidence in applying money knowledge to real-world scenarios

What’s Included:

• A range of Creating Equivalent Money Values Worksheets featuring:
  • Section 1: Creating and drawing two different coin combinations for a given value
  • Section 2: Representing a value using the fewest coins possible and the most coins possible
• Clear, accessible layouts to support independent and guided learning

Materials Needed:

• Printed Creating Equivalent Money Values Worksheets
• Pencils, coloured pencils or markers
• Optional: real or plastic Australian coins for hands-on manipulation

How to Use:

1. Introduce or review coin values with your class.
2. Model how to combine coins in different ways, showing both efficient (few coins) and detailed (many coins) approaches.
3. Students complete Section 1 by drawing two different combinations of coins that match the given value.
4. In Section 2, students represent the value using the fewest coins possible and again using the most coins possible.
5. Encourage students to check their totals by skip-counting or grouping coins.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during whole-class money units to explore equivalence and flexible counting strategies.
• 💡 Include in financial literacy rotations for differentiated money practise.
• 💡 Add as an extension task to challenge advanced learners during maths sessions.
• 💡 Pair with hands-on coin manipulation to support kinaesthetic learners.
• 💡 Use as a pre-assessment or post-assessment to monitor growth in money understanding.

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model different approaches to combining coins and encourage students to share their strategies.
• 💛 Use the activity to explicitly discuss efficient and inefficient ways to represent amounts.
• 💛 Support students with real or plastic coins during the activity to deepen understanding.
• 💛 Challenge fast finishers with additional tasks such as creating their own coin puzzles for peers.

Creating Equivalent Money Values Worksheets is a flexible and meaningful resource that helps students confidently identify equivalent money values and represent them in a variety of ways. An excellent tool for building strong financial literacy and flexible mathematical thinking!