Numbers&Me

Money and profit practice

Counting coins, buying and selling for a profit or a loss, comparing discounts, and working out the price needed to hit a target.

Counting coins

Grade 2

Practise counting money with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters: make an amount, use the fewest coins, or count a purse. With a solution video.

Profit or loss

Grade 2

Practise profit and loss with one thing bought and sold: did they make a profit or a loss, and how much? New prices every time, with a solution video.

Buying and selling the same thing again

Grade 3

Practise profit and loss over 2 or 3 trades of the same thing: what did it all come to? New prices every time, with step-by-step working and a solution video.

Making change from the coins you have

Grade 3

Practise making change with only the coins in the till: can it give exactly 35¢, and which coins? New coins every time, with step-by-step working and a video.

Keeping a running total of money

Grade 3

Fill in what is left in the piggy bank after each spend or top-up, or work backwards to the start. New numbers every time, with step-by-step working.

Profit and loss from a table

Grade 4

Practise profit and loss with a shop's stock table: cost price, selling price and quantity. Profit, loss or break-even, and how much? With a video.

Best price after discount

Grade 4

Practise percentage discounts: four stores, four marked prices, four discounts. Which is cheapest and which is dearest? With a solution video.

Buying and selling problems

Grade 5

Practise reverse profit problems: given the selling price, number sold and profit, find the buying price. New stories and prices every time.

Selling price to reach a target

Grade 6

Practise multi-step profit problems: a load is sold in lots; at what price must the rest sell to reach the target? New stories every time.

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