This page makes free printable making change worksheets on demand: press the button and you get a new sheet of 20 problems with a matching answer key, ready for US Letter or A4 paper. The current sheet starts with problems like “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $1.67. Change =” and “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change =”, and the answers ($8.33 and $2.07) are printed on the key so marking takes about a minute.
‘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.
Making change is subtraction that most children can already do and often cannot apply, because a question like “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change =” adds a step they have to work out for themselves.
Lining up the decimal points is the whole technique. Money problems are where children who skip that step find out why it matters.
Money is decimals with a reason to care. An item like “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $1.67. Change =” is a two-place decimal calculation, and the answer $8.33 has to be exact because money always is.
This sheet uses notes of $5, $10, $20 and $50, written with two decimal places throughout, which is the form on every price tag and receipt, as the item “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.57. Change =” on this sheet shows.
In US classrooms these making change worksheets are commonly aligned with the money and measurement expectations for this grade, though the exact wording varies from state to state.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You pay $10.00 for an item costing $1.67. Change = | $8.33 | Watch for: subtracting the wrong way for change |
| 2 | You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change = | $2.07 | Check: ignoring the dollar sign in the answer |
| 3 | You pay $20.00 for an item costing $2.39. Change = | $17.61 | Look at: rounding to the nearest dollar mid-calculation |
| 4 | You pay $50.00 for an item costing $6.25. Change = | $43.75 | Ask about: treating dollars and cents as two separate numbers |
| 5 | You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.57. Change = | $2.43 | Watch for: forgetting to add everything |
| 6 | You pay $10.00 for an item costing $3.14. Change = | $6.86 | Check: dropping the second decimal place |
Here is one worked through. “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change =” gives $2.07. If your child arrives somewhere other than $2.07 on “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change =”, look at the working rather than the answer: nearly every wrong result comes from a skipped step, not an unknown fact.
The item “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change =” is worth doing slowly. The answer to “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change =” is $2.07, and the route to it is the route every other problem on this sheet takes — which is why the sheet has 20 of them rather than one.
The answer key is generated with the worksheet, not written by hand, so it always matches the sheet in front of you — “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $1.67. Change =” is listed as $8.33, “You pay $10.00 for an item costing $7.93. Change =” as $2.07, and so on down the page.
Keys are produced by the same code that produces the questions, so a mismatch between question and answer is not possible on these sheets.
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.
The sheet is laid out to fit one page on both US Letter and A4. Leave the browser scaling at 100% and turn headers and footers off, and the 20 problems land inside the margins on either paper size.
Keep the finished making change worksheets in date order — the drop in time across ten sheets is the clearest progress report you will get.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13