These 6th grade math word problems worksheets are generated rather than scanned, which means you can print a different sheet every day of the week without paying for a subscription or running out of practice. A typical problem from the sheet in front of you is “A jacket costs 140 dollars with 25% off. How much is the discount?”, which works out to 35 dollars; another is “One board is 27.61 m and another is 9.87 m. How much longer is the first?”, giving 17.74 m.
‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.
A word problem tests two things at once: whether the child can choose the operation, and whether they can carry it out. On a problem like “A jacket costs 140 dollars with 25% off. How much is the discount?”, the arithmetic behind 35 dollars is usually the easy part.
Because the names, objects and numbers regenerate, the child cannot recognise a problem type by its wording alone.
These problems use benchmark percentages, so the reading, not the arithmetic, is the challenge.
Answers should carry their units. A number without a unit is not an answer to a word problem, however correct the arithmetic.
In US classrooms these 6th grade math word problems worksheets are commonly aligned with the problem-solving expectations for this grade, though the exact wording varies from state to state.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A jacket costs 140 dollars with 25% off. How much is the discount? | 35 dollars | Watch for: not checking whether the answer is sensible |
| 2 | One board is 27.61 m and another is 9.87 m. How much longer is the first? | 17.74 m | Check: grabbing the numbers and guessing the operation |
| 3 | Sam saves 15 dollars a week for 8 weeks and then spends 3 dollars. How much is left? | 117 dollars | Look at: being thrown by unfamiliar names or objects |
| 4 | Out of 50 students, 15% ride a bus. How many students ride a bus? | 7.5 | Ask about: answering a different question |
| 5 | A bottle holds 38.95 L. 5 bottles hold how many litres? | 194.75 | Watch for: missing a step in a two-step problem |
| 6 | A shelf holds 3 books per row in 6 rows. 15 books are borrowed. How many remain? | 3 | Check: dropping the units |
Here is one worked through. “One board is 27.61 m and another is 9.87 m. How much longer is the first?” gives 17.74 m. If your child arrives somewhere other than 17.74 m on “One board is 27.61 m and another is 9.87 m. How much longer is the first?”, look at the working rather than the answer: nearly every wrong result comes from a skipped step, not an unknown fact.
Work “Out of 50 students, 15% ride a bus. How many students ride a bus?” out loud as a demonstration. It gives 7.5. Children who hear “Out of 50 students, 15% ride a bus. How many students ride a bus?” reasoned through once at the start of a session make noticeably fewer errors in the ten minutes that follow.
Every generated sheet carries its own key on a separate printed page, which lets a child self-mark without seeing the answers while they work.
Answers appear next to their question numbers, so a wrong item like “One board is 27.61 m and another is 9.87 m. How much longer is the first?” can be found in the key in a second and re-worked while it is still fresh.
Printing works the same on US Letter and A4, because the layout uses relative widths rather than fixed inches. Set margins to default and scaling to 100%, and all 20 problems fit.
Portrait orientation is what the sheet is designed for. Landscape works but wastes about a third of the paper, so leave the orientation alone unless you have a reason.
One sheet of 6th grade math word problems worksheets a day for two weeks will tell you more about where a 6th grader actually stands than any single long assessment.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13