The Pound

"Zuri, you won't believe what I found out." "What, Freddie?" "We can use these to buy ICE CREAM!" "What? With this paper?" Let's help Zuri and Freddie learn all about The Pound. Pounds and pence is the currency, or money, we use in the United Kingdom. Money in the United Kingdom is represented by pounds and pence. There is a special symbol, or notation, we use when writing money in pounds, and it looks like THIS. We know what the pound symbol looks like, but how do we write it? First, start by drawing this shape, and then draw a small line across the middle. Now you have seen how to write the pound symbol, lets see what coins and notes there are! In the United Kingdom we have two main coins and four main notes that are all worth an amount in pounds. The ONE pound coin, the TWO pound coin, the FIVE pound note, the TEN pound note, the TWENTY pound note, and the FIFTY pound note. You can identify the value of a note by looking at the NUMBER written on it OR the WORD FORM of the number on the note! Before Zuri and Freddie can spend some of their savings, let's practice identifying some coins and notes and writing their value! Here is our first note. What is the value of this? We can see TEN in NUMBER form here and also in WORD form here, so the value is ten pounds! How do we write ten pounds? First, write the pound symbol, then write a TEN after it. We can also write it with a dot followed by two zeros after it where the numbers AFTER the dot would represent pence. "Okay, so that's ten pounds!" "What about this one?" What is the value of this coin? We can see it is gold and silver in colour and also has the WORD one here, so the value is one pound! How do we write one pound? First, write the pound symbol, then write a ONE after it. We can also write it like THIS. Zuri and Freddie now understand pounds. While they head off to spend some money, let's review! Remember, pounds and pence is the currency, or money, we use in the United Kingdom. We can write money in pounds by writing the pound symbol, followed by a value. There are TWO commonly used coins and FOUR commonly used notes with values of pounds. These include the ONE pound coin,the TWO pound coin, the FIVE pound note, the TEN pound note, the TWENTY pound note, and the FIFTY pound note! "I'm glad we stopped for some new stuff before we get ice cream, Freddie. We look so cool"

"Oh no, we only have enough money left for one ice cream!" "Next time, let's be more careful with our money!"