1. Writing Money Values and Units
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2. Writing Money Using Cents
A cent is the smallest unit used to represent money in Canada.
When you write a money value using cents the number is a whole number (e.g., 12).
The symbol for cents is “¢”, for example, 75¢ means 75 cents.

3. Writing Money Using Dollars
1 dollar equals 100 cents.
When you write money values using dollars, the number usually includes two decimal places (e.g., 4.50).
The symbol for the dollar is “$”.
When you see $3.25 it means 3.25 dollars or 3 dollars and 25 cents.

4. Place Value
The value of a digit can change based on its location in a number. That is called place value.
When working in cents the numbers are whole numbers.
In 84¢,
the 4 is in the ones place value and represents 4 X 1 or 4¢
the 8 is in the tens place value and represents 8 X 10 or 80¢

5. Place Value
In 325¢,
the 5 is in the ones place value and represents 5 X 1 or 5¢
the 2 is in the tens place value and represents 2 X 10 or 20¢
the 3 is in the hundreds place value and represents 3 X 100 or 300¢ (this is also 3 dollars)

6. Place Value
When using dollars, the numbers are usually decimal numbers.
In $4.52,
the 2 is in the hundredths place value and represents 2 hundredths of a dollar or 2¢
the 5 is in the tenths place value and represents 5 tenths of a dollar or 50¢
the 4 is in the ones place value and represents 4 dollars or $4

7. Writing Money Values
You can write the same value of money in a number of different ways.
95¢ means the same thing as
95 cents or…
.95 dollars or …
$0.95

8. Writing Money Values Write 35 dollars and 15 cents two other ways.
$35.15
3515¢