Imagine you arrive home this evening and you are greeted

by an envelope.

You can open your envelope

and read what’s inside it.

How do you feel?

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 On the back of your letter is a shopping list.

Where will you buy the things you need for your first
year at Hogwarts?

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 Diagon Alley

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 You borrow 80 Galleons from Gringott’s bank.

Your task today is to work out how much change you

would get from 80 Galleons when you have
bought your school uniform only.

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written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
 Talk to your partner.

What are you going to be doing in this

challenge?

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written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
 How will you sum all of the
uniform items?

What method will you use?

Add the items together then

subtract from 80.

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written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
Used some paper to do your working out on:

add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal

written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
 Challenge

In Wizard money, 1 Galleon is worth 2 pounds.

Can we convert Galleons into pounds?

How can we do it?

What method would we use?

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written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
 Task:

Find all of the items you need on the Diagon Alley

shopping list.

Add all of items up together in Galleons.

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written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
 Money Guide 1

29 Knuts 1 Sickle
17 Sickles 1 Galleon
1 Galleon £10

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 Y4/5 Task:

Find all of the items you need on the Diagon Alley shopping
list.

Add all of items up together in Galleons and sickles.

Convert your sickles into Galleons.

Convert your answers into British pounds by

using your conversion sheet.

Challenge: Move on to next

years shopping list!
add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal
written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
Let’s look at an example together:

add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal

written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
 Y6 Task:

Find all of the items you need on the Diagon Alley shopping
list.

Add all of items up together in Galleons, Sickles and Knuts.

Convert your Knuts into Sickles and then into Galleons.

Convert your answers into British pounds by

using your conversion sheet.

Challenge: Move on to next

years shopping list!
add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal
written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
Let’s look at an example together:

add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal

written methods of columnar addition and subtraction