Money launch

See the page on representations on tenths and hundreths with Rekenreks first.

This leads on really well and helps children strengthen the link between 1/100 (0.01) and 1p and also 1/10 (0.1) as 10p.

It's also a great way of linking to fractions as nearly all my children were able to explain how £0.25 was one quarter of a pound and £0.75 was three quarters of a pound.

I then used a bar model to try to explain to a group of children who were struggling with the concept.