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⏰ 4th grade math · Measure, Time & Money

Dollars and cents

$2.35 is 2 dollars and 35 cents. Line up the dots to add or take away money.

Worked example

You buy a granola bar for $1.59 and a granola bar for $6.56. What is the total?
Answer: $8.15
Add the cents: 159 + 656 = 815 cents. Every 100 cents is a dollar, so that’s $8.15.

For grown-ups: Money problems with decimals. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS 4.MD.A.2
What this practises, for teachers

Practices money problems with decimals (4.MD.A.2). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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Try three

  1. You buy an eraser for $5.28 and a granola bar for $7.21. What is the total?
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    Answer: $12.49
    Add the cents: 528 + 721 = 1249 cents. Every 100 cents is a dollar, so that’s $12.49.
  2. You buy 2 juice boxes at $2.23 each. What do they cost altogether?
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    Answer: $4.46
    2 lots of $2.23. In cents that’s 2 × 223 = 446 cents, and 100 cents is a dollar, so $4.46.
  3. $3.35 shared equally between 5 people — how much each?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: $0.67
    Share 335 cents between 5: 335 ÷ 5 = 67 cents each, which is $0.67.

Before and after

Learn first: Count coins and dollars (2nd)

Comes next: Price, tax and tip (6th)

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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?

Answer 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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