Money Maths Question Generator

Builds a sheet of money word problems in pounds and pence — giving change, totalling a basket, and splitting a bill — working every calculation in whole pence throughout so no answer can come out as an impossible amount like £4.999999, only converting back to pounds once the arithmetic is finished.

How many questions

Between 1 and 30. The sheet below shows how many pages they take.

Level

Seed (optional)

A word reproduces the same sheet, so a whole class can be given the identical set.

Gentle is change from a note or the total of two items. Standard allows a basket of up to three; stretch adds splitting a bill.

Paper size

Print size

Margin

Millimetres of blank edge, 5 to 40.

Turn the paper sideways

Room to answer in

How to print this, or save it as a PDF

There is no PDF to download, and there does not need to be. Open the print command in your browser and choose “Save as PDF” as the destination. The page addresses and dates a browser normally prints across the top and bottom are already kept off.
Set the scale to 100%, not “fit to page”. This sheet is already the exact size of the paper you chose, so anything that resizes it makes every measurement on it wrong.
Leave the paper size in the dialog set to the same one you chose here.

Your questions will appear here.

What this generator does

Money is a good context precisely because the answer has to be sensible: an answer of £4.7 is wrong in a way that 4.7 is not. Prices are written the way a shop writes them — under a pound in pence, over a pound in pounds — so reading the question already involves the conversion the answer will need.

How to use this tool

Choose how many questions you want and a level, which decides which kinds of problem are included.
Press make questions, and work through the sheet.
Show the answers to mark it, or show the working to see the conversion to pence and back.
Enter a seed word to rebuild the same sheet later.

Understanding the controls

How many questions: One to thirty. Word problems take longer to read than they do to solve, so a shorter sheet goes further here than on a column-arithmetic page.
Level: Gentle is change from a note or the total of two items. Standard allows a basket of two or three. Stretch adds splitting a bill equally, which needs division as well as the conversion.
Seed: A word rebuilds the same sheet unless the generator has changed since, so the same problems can be set to two groups without saving a file.
Show the answers / show the working: The working converts to pence, does the arithmetic there and converts back, which is the method the sheet is trying to instil.

Worked examples

Gentle level, seed round9: A birthday card costing £2.49, paid for with a £10.00 note → the change is £7.51, worked as 1000 − 249 = 751 in pence.

Common use cases

Money-maths practice at home or school
Everyday-maths warm-ups
Practising the pounds-and-pence conversion specifically
Self-testing before a maths quiz

How this generator works

Every amount is held as a whole number of pence for the entire calculation and only formatted as pounds at the last moment. The split questions are built backwards from a whole-pence share so the bill always divides exactly. The check reads the printed price back into pence and requires it to reconstruct the original — the change plus the price must equal the note, and the share times the number of people must equal the bill.

Randomness and fairness

Which kind of problem you get is drawn per question from the set the level allows, and the items in a basket are drawn without repetition so no question lists the same thing twice. The note in a change question is drawn from every note large enough to cover the price — £5 or £10 at gentle, with £20 added above that — so a cheap item is sometimes paid for with a large note, and the change is correspondingly large.

For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.

Limitations and good to know

Prices come from a small fixed list of ten everyday items, so the same item recurs across a long sheet even though it never repeats within one question.
Everything is in pounds and pence; there is no option for another currency.
Bills always split exactly, which is deliberate for practice and rarely true of a real restaurant bill.
Seeding makes a sheet reissuable rather than unpredictable, so seeded output is deterministic, not cryptographically random.

Common mistakes

Writing £4.7 instead of £4.70: Money always has two decimal places. £4.7 is not a way of writing an amount of money.
Mixing pounds and pence in one calculation: Convert everything to pence, do the arithmetic, convert back at the end.

Privacy and your data

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