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Primary 3 Money study guide: the whole chapter, step by step
About this subtopic
This mixed practice stop brings together 3 topics from Primary 3 Money: Whole dollar amounts, Dollars and cents, Shopping and change. Nothing on the question says which topic it comes from, so choosing the method is part of the skill.
Practice questions with worked solutions
Question 1 is free to try. The other 11 open in the free trial, each with its solution film.
Question 1 of 12 · Basic · free to try$0.55 and a missing amount make $1.00. Find the missing amount.$0.55 and a missing amount make…
$0.55 and a missing amount make $1.00. Find the missing amount.
Show the working and the answer
Working
- Amount needed = $1.00 − $0.55 = $0.45
- The amount needed is $0.45.
Answer: $0.45
For parents
How should your child approach money mixed practice questions in P3?
This page mixes questions from every part of P3 Money: making a whole dollar amount, adding and subtracting dollars and cents, and shopping problems with change and budgets.
What your child learns here
This page mixes questions from every part of P3 Money: making a whole dollar amount, adding and subtracting dollars and cents, and shopping problems with change and budgets. The question carries no label, so your child must decide whether to add, subtract or do both. That decision comes before any column sum.
- Read money in decimal notation and keep dollars and cents in their own places.
- Find how much more is needed to reach a whole-dollar amount, renaming across zeros.
- Add and subtract dollars and cents in columns, regrouping at 100 cents.
- Solve two-step shopping problems: total cost first, then the change or the money left.
- Work backwards from the money left to the starting amount, and check a choice against a budget.
Does the answer make sense?
Change must be less than the notes handed over, and an amount still needed must be less than the round target it is heading for. Reading the answer aloud as dollars and cents helps your child hear whether its size fits the story, such as a few dollars back from a $10 note.
How to practise these questions
This set mixes the chapter's question types: making whole dollars, adding and subtracting money, and shopping with change. The Basic questions keep to one skill each, while the Intermediate questions join two, such as a total followed by change. The Challenge questions leave your child to plan the order of steps in a longer money story. When any money question in this set stalls, play its solution film and revisit it later from Revision.
Questions parents ask
What money topics does my child need for Primary 3? The MOE syllabus for Primary 3 lists one outcome under Money: adding and subtracting money in decimal notation. The three subtopics in this chapter use it in different ways: making a whole dollar amount, sums and differences of dollars and cents, and shopping with change and budgets.
Why can my child do each money lesson but find mixed questions harder? On a subtopic page the method is known in advance. In a mixed set your child has to read the question and choose, which is a separate skill. Asking whether the question wants a total, a difference or change, before starting, helps.
How often should my P3 child practise money questions? Short and regular suits this chapter: a few questions a few times a week, plus real money at the shops. The free first question on this page is a good starting point, and each subtopic page has its own lesson if a skill needs a refresher.