You can use a number line to help. First, label it with the price of the item and the money that was paid. Then you can count on in 1p amounts. Or, you can count in any amount you find easy to ...

You can use the 1p coin and the 10p coin to make 11p. We need to count our coins to see how much money we have. Each coin has its value on it, so we use that to find the total. Look at these 6 coins.