Year 4 · Summer term · Money · Step 3
Year 4 Compare amounts of money worksheets with answers
Compare and order amounts written in pounds and pence, find the value of a digit and use < and >. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
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Printing tip: the red answers are in the same file, after the questions. For pupils, print only the pages before the red answers (in Word, choose the pages in the print box). Keep the full file for marking.
Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- What is the value of the digit in each amount?a) the digit 1 in 5,701p: ____b) the digit 7 in £8.71: ____c) the digit 7 in £75.13: ____d) the digit 4 in £83.42: ____
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1p; 70p; £70; 40p
- Write the amounts in order, starting with the smallest.405p £6.96 838p £7.42____
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405p, £6.96, £7.42, 838p
- Nina wants to complete the statement using < or >.565p > £5.56Nina: 565p > £5.56.Is Nina's statement correct? Circle yes or no.Circle yes or no.Explain how you know.
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Yes; Yes. £5.65 is the bigger amount. Change both amounts to pence or to pounds to compare.
- Alex has £6.11 and Zach has 629p. Mia has more money than Alex, but less than Zach.How much money could Mia have? ____
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£6.12
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.