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Café Change – Australian Money Worksheet
Subtract whole-dollar practice prices from $10 and check the result by adding. Free one-page A4 activity with educator guidance and checked answers.
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A practical Australian money skills activity
Subtract whole-dollar practice prices from $10 and check the result by adding. The printable gives children a specific task, visible response space and enough information to begin without a long educator explanation.
What children do
Choose an item. Work out the change from $10, then check: price + change = $10.
Prepare and facilitate
Materials: Printed worksheet, pencil and optional colouring tools. Allow about two minutes to print and place the page. The activity usually takes 25 minutes.
Use the four printed café cards with ten $1 play-money tokens. Prices are fictional practice prices.
Keep examples fictional. Do not ask children to share household income, access to money, political preferences, addresses or family voting choices.
Answer guide
- Fruit cup $3 → $7 change
- Muffin $4 → $6 change
- Smoothie $5 → $5 change
- Toastie $6 → $4 change
Adapt participation
Simpler way to join: Read the task aloud, complete one example together and allow pointing, moving tokens or dictating instead of writing.
More challenge: Choose two different items that total no more than $10 and calculate the remaining amount.
Learning opportunities
Look for financial vocabulary, calculation, choice-making and explaining a strategy. Ask a child to show a match, calculation, sequence or reason; completion alone is not evidence of understanding.
Useful educator prompts
- What information on the page helps you begin?
- How could you check that match, total or sequence?
- Which part is a fact, and which part is a choice or opinion?
Fact-check sources
Printing notes
Print at actual size on A4 paper. The worksheet is ink-friendly and uses simplified diagrams rather than reproductions of banknotes, coins, official ballot papers or government artwork.
