Grade 4 Money Worksheets — Unit Price and Multi-Step Problems
Fourth grade money work stops being about adding prices and starts being about reasoning with them. Six sub-skills are offered at this grade and the page opens on Buying Several Items, where the level control steps from Several of one item, to Several plus one more, to Two items in quantity. Unit Price asks for a pack total divided by the number in the pack and finishes by comparing two pack sizes for best value; Giving Change pays with a fifty dollar note.
Choose a difficulty, set the number of questions, and tick the answer key box for a marking page. Every pack total is built from an exact unit price, so the division always comes out cleanly and a student is never left with a repeating decimal that money cannot express.
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Each one generates a different kind of question, with its own three levels and answer key.
- Buying Several ItemsWork out the bill when several of the same item are bought.
- Unit PriceFind what one item costs, then use it to compare two packs.
- Giving ChangeWork out the change when a note is handed over.
- How Many Can You BuyWork out how many items a set amount of money will buy.
- Comparing AmountsDecide which amount is more, and put amounts in order.
- Mixed Money ProblemsA mix of the grade's money skills, like an end-of-unit review.
What each level generates
Grade 4 buying several items — the exact skill behind each difficulty setting, straight from the generator.
- Level 1Several of one item
- Level 2Several plus one more
- Level 3Two items in quantity
Grade levels follow the progression common to most English-language curricula — not one specific national curriculum. Every level shows exactly what it generates, so you can check the fit with your own program. See the full scope & sequence →
Unit price: the idea behind every comparison
Unit price is the first genuinely economic idea in the curriculum. Dividing a pack total by the number of items answers "what is one of these worth", and once a student can do that, every value question becomes answerable. Working in cents makes the division friendlier: a pack of six at $10.50 is 1050 cents shared six ways, which is 175 cents, or $1.75.
The common error is dividing the wrong way round, and it is caught by a sanity check rather than a rule. One item must cost less than the whole pack. If the answer is bigger than the total, the division was inverted. Asking for that check out loud on the first two questions of a sheet usually fixes it for the whole page.
Two-step totals, change and best value
Buying Several Items finishes on Two items in quantity, which prints two quantities and two prices, so each question is two multiplications and one addition. The discipline to build is writing down each subtotal before adding, because mental arithmetic that tries to hold both products at once is where errors creep in. A quick estimate first — roughly five dollars each for four, roughly a dollar each for three, so about twenty three dollars — keeps the final answer honest.
Two sub-skills carry that further. Giving Change gives a bill and a fifty dollar note and asks for the change; Unit Price finishes on Better value pack, which gives two pack sizes of the same item and asks how much less one item costs in the better pack. That second shape is unit price used for a purpose, and it is worth talking through: the bigger pack is not always cheaper in real shops, which is precisely why the comparison is worth doing.
Frequently asked questions
▸What is unit price and how is it taught in Grade 4?
Unit price is the cost of a single item, found by dividing a pack total by the number in the pack. A pack of six at $10.50 gives a unit price of $1.75. The Unit Price sheet generates exactly that calculation at its first level, always with an exact answer.
▸How do you solve a two-step money problem?
Work out each part separately and write the subtotal down before combining. For four items at $3.20 and three at $1.15, that is $12.80 and $3.45, giving $16.25. The Two items in quantity level of Buying Several Items drills that structure on every question.
▸How do you compare two pack sizes for best value?
Divide each pack total by the number of items to get two unit prices, then compare them. The Better value pack level of Unit Price asks how much less one item costs in the cheaper pack, so a student has to finish the comparison rather than just point at it.
▸Are the divisions always exact?
Yes. Every pack total is built by multiplying a whole-cent unit price by the pack size, so dividing back out always lands on an exact amount. No question on these sheets produces a rounded or recurring answer.