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Dollars and cents: 4th grade math

Money problems with decimals. A free 4th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: money problems with decimals.

Teach (10 min)

  • $2.35 is 2 dollars and 35 cents.
  • Line up the dots to add or take away money.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/decimals.money?lesson=4-money&at=4

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. You buy an eraser for $5.28 and a granola bar for $7.21. What is the total?
  • 2. You buy 2 juice boxes at $2.23 each. What do they cost altogether?
  • 3. $3.35 shared equally between 5 people — how much each?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. You buy an eraser for $5.28 and a granola bar for $7.21. What is the total?
  2. You buy 2 juice boxes at $2.23 each. What do they cost altogether?
  3. $3.35 shared equally between 5 people — how much each?
  4. You buy an apple for $4.30 and a pencil for $2.01. What is the total?
  5. $4.46 shared equally between 2 people — how much each?
  6. $1.20 shared equally between 2 people — how much each?
  7. You buy 2 pencils at $3.34 each. What do they cost altogether?
  8. You buy 5 comics at $1.84 each. What do they cost altogether?
  9. You buy 3 shoelaces at $0.89 each. What do they cost altogether?
  10. You buy a pencil for $1.71 and a juice box for $5.35. What is the total?
Answers
  1. $12.49
  2. $4.46
  3. $0.67
  4. $6.31
  5. $2.23
  6. $0.60
  7. $6.68
  8. $9.20
  9. $2.67
  10. $7.06

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Dollars and cents (4th grade)

  1. You buy 3 erasers at $1.60 each. What do they cost altogether?
  2. You pay with $5.00 for an eraser costing $3.68. How much change?
  3. You buy a pack of gum for $5.22 and a pack of gum for $7.40. What is the total?
  4. You buy 3 juice boxes at $1.65 each. What do they cost altogether?
  5. You buy 2 erasers at $2.40 each. What do they cost altogether?
  6. You buy a shoelace for $3.01 and a granola bar for $5.35. What is the total?
  7. You buy 3 shoelaces at $3.05 each. What do they cost altogether?
  8. $4.45 shared equally between 5 people — how much each?
  9. You buy an eraser for $5.00 and a shoelace for $2.46. What is the total?
  10. $1.98 shared equally between 2 people — how much each?
  11. $2.70 shared equally between 2 people — how much each?
  12. You buy 2 pencils at $0.68 each. What do they cost altogether?
Key
  1. $4.80
  2. $1.32
  3. $12.62
  4. $4.95
  5. $4.80
  6. $8.36
  7. $9.15
  8. $0.89
  9. $7.46
  10. $0.99
  11. $1.35
  12. $1.36

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