Help! Am loosing my mind

[Meme2019]

I have been trying to teach my now 8year old how to count money for at least a year. We bought the learning resources on money, tried everything we can think of, he just doesn't get it. He can count money when it's pounds only but adding pence seems alien to him.

Any suggestions please.

What is it he is struggling with? I can't work out what is so different about counting money if he can add up ordinary numbers. I would be an utterly crap teacher! 😂

Is he over complicating it in his head?

@SoupDragon

What is it he is struggling with? I can't work out what is so different about counting money if he can add up ordinary numbers. I would be an utterly crap teacher! 😂

Is he over complicating it in his head?

This is why am loosing my mind, he can add fine, but when it comes to money, he looses all his adding abilities.

I.e the concept of pence adding up to a pound is just beyond him.

So it's more of a mental block than an inability to count. What happens if you take the money out of it and have just blocks of numbers...? Like blocks of those 1 square Lego bricks or something.

It sounds like he needs lots of practice with £1 equalling 100p. Can you do lots of things to show they're the same, physically get 100 1ps and lay them out next to a pound coin. Count in pounds, so £1, £2, £3 etc, and then the same in pence, 100p, 200p, 300p etc. Reinforcing number bonds to 100 with pence/pounds, so questions like "if I have 75p, how much more do I need to have a pound" - counting it out with pennies.