Money and Measures Problems: Year 6 Maths

Year 6 maths worksheets on money, change and measures problems: 36 questions in three levels (All, Most, Some) with answers. Free PDF.

7-page A4 PDF from the Tiger Shark Education question bank. All: Work out the change from a payment. Most: Compare measures and solve measure problems. Some: Solve money problems with decimals. Each level is two pages of six questions, each with a squared working area, and the last page has every answer, with short working for multi-step questions. Each level is also available as its own 3-page PDF. Example questions from the Some level: A gift card holds £6.10. You spend £0.79. How much is left on it, in £ (pounds)? / One ticket costs £2.64. How much do 7 tickets cost, in £ (pounds)?

What are money and measures problems? These problems involve calculations with money, length, mass and capacity in real contexts: working out change, comparing prices, finding totals and solving multi-step problems. Year 6 pupils need to work confidently with decimals and convert between units where necessary.

Common mistakes and tips: Common errors include mixing pounds and pence in the same calculation (adding £2.50 and 75p as 77.50) and forgetting to convert units before calculating. Encourage children to choose one unit before they start. Writing money with two decimal places (£3.50, not £3.5) is a small but important convention in the SATs.

This topic is part of the Year 6 National Curriculum for maths, and it regularly appears on the KS2 SATs papers. The All, Most and Some levels let you check basic fluency first and then move on to the multi-step, contextual questions found on the reasoning papers.

How teachers use these sheets: as a lesson’s independent task, as a starter to revisit a topic from earlier in the year, or as a revision pack in the weeks before the SATs. Children can mark their own work with the answer page, then explain one mistake to a partner to deepen understanding.

Reasoning and explanation: once children can answer the questions, ask them to explain their method to a partner or write a short explanation of one answer. The SATs reasoning papers include ‘explain how you know’ questions, and talking about methods deepens understanding far more than repeating calculations.

Use All for children working towards the expected standard, Most for secure Year 5 skills and Some for SATs-standard practice: three entry points to the same lesson. Suits whole-class differentiation, intervention groups, homework and SATs revision, and upper KS2 generally.

Part of a set of 42 Year 6 maths topics.