Year 4 Money Challenges
Solving Money Problems

Knowing how to handle and calculate with money is a very important life-skill.

During Year 3, children build on their knowledge and skills they have achieved during Year 2.

By the time children reach the end of Year 3, they should be able to:-

• use decimal notation for amounts of money, e.g. £3.27
• change amounts in £ to amounts in pence and back;
• count money up to £10;
• calculate change for amounts of money up to £1 mentally;
• solve simple problems involving money;
• use informal methods to add and subtract money amounts in £ and pence.

Our worksheets will support your child with these objectives.

The following worksheets involve solving challenges involving money amounts. They are a great way to consolidate and extend money learning once children are confident with counting money amounts.

The challenges start off at a fairly easy level with problems that involve lower value coins and smaller money amounts. The challenges later on involve more complex problems with larger values to calculate.

If you are teaching a class or group of children, then these sheets should give you some great differentiated learning activities with a money theme.

An answer sheet is available for each challenge provided.

The money challenges in each section are carefully graded, allowing you to introduce concepts at an easier level before introducing harder work, or differentiate within your class.

Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:

• count money in coins;
• develop their reasoning and thinking skills;
• solve problems involving money.

All the money worksheets in this section will help your child to become more confident with money, and develop better problem solving skills.

These problems and challenges build on our Year 3 Money Challenges.

There are 3 challenges - Tyger's Money Square Challenge, Row of Coins Challenge and How Much Money Challenge.

Each main challenge has several versions which start with the easiest level and progress onto harder levels of challenge.

We also have some counting money worksheets with amounts up to £1 or £5.

The sheets are at a more basic level than those on this page.

If you are looking for some fun learning puzzles involving money, then look no further.

The puzzle sheets in this section are designed primarily for children in Years 3 and 4 who need to develop their problem solving skills and mathematical language.

Using these challenges will help your child to:

• apply their existing skills to puzzle out clues;
• understand money terminology;
• develop their thinking skills.

Here you will find a selection of Column Addition Money sheets designed to help your child add different amounts of money.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

• add up a range of money amounts involving decimals.

The worksheets in this section are aimed at children in Years 4 and 5.

Here you will find a selection of Column Subtraction Money sheets designed to help your child subtract different amounts of money.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

• subtract a range of money amounts involving decimals.

The worksheets in this section are aimed at children in Years 4 and 5.

Here is our collection of counting money games for kids.

All of these games are suitable for kids aged from 1st grade and upwards.

Playing games is a great way to practice math skills in a fun way. Games also help to develop reasoning, thinking and memory.

The Math Salamanders hope you enjoy using these free printable Math worksheets and all our other Math games and resources.

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