Making Change Worksheets

A price and the bill handed over on every line: work out the change by subtracting or by counting up.

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12 problems. Change from a five or a ten. Sheet IJW7Y, with its answer key.

Change from a five or a ten

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Find the change: subtract the price from the amount paid. Line up the decimal points.

1.Price $1.35, paid $5.00. Change: ________
2.Price $4.65, paid $5.00. Change: ________
3.Price $4.80, paid $5.00. Change: ________
4.Price $5.65, paid $10.00. Change: ________
5.Price $7.30, paid $10.00. Change: ________
6.Price $2.10, paid $10.00. Change: ________
7.Price $7.25, paid $10.00. Change: ________
8.Price $4.55, paid $5.00. Change: ________
9.Price $6.95, paid $10.00. Change: ________
10.Price $4.05, paid $5.00. Change: ________
11.Price $1.20, paid $10.00. Change: ________
12.Price $5.55, paid $10.00. Change: ________

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Answer key. Change from a five or a ten

1.Price $1.35, paid $5.00. Change: $3.65($5.00 − $1.35 = $3.65)
2.Price $4.65, paid $5.00. Change: 35¢($5.00 − $4.65 = $0.35)
3.Price $4.80, paid $5.00. Change: 20¢($5.00 − $4.80 = $0.20)
4.Price $5.65, paid $10.00. Change: $4.35($10.00 − $5.65 = $4.35)
5.Price $7.30, paid $10.00. Change: $2.70($10.00 − $7.30 = $2.70)
6.Price $2.10, paid $10.00. Change: $7.90($10.00 − $2.10 = $7.90)
7.Price $7.25, paid $10.00. Change: $2.75($10.00 − $7.25 = $2.75)
8.Price $4.55, paid $5.00. Change: 45¢($5.00 − $4.55 = $0.45)
9.Price $6.95, paid $10.00. Change: $3.05($10.00 − $6.95 = $3.05)
10.Price $4.05, paid $5.00. Change: 95¢($5.00 − $4.05 = $0.95)
11.Price $1.20, paid $10.00. Change: $8.80($10.00 − $1.20 = $8.80)
12.Price $5.55, paid $10.00. Change: $4.45($10.00 − $5.55 = $4.45)

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How it works

These making change worksheets print a price and the bill handed over on every line, such as a $6.05 price paid with $10.00. Students write the change, $3.95. The page opens on change from a five or a ten.

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Two ways to find the change

Subtracting sheets take the price from the amount paid: $10.00 − $6.05 = $3.95. Counting up sheets work the way a cashier does. From $5.10, 90¢ makes $6.00 and $4.00 more makes $10.00, so the change is $4.90. Use them as counting change back practice before any subtraction across zeros.

Pick the bill, then the prices

Under Sheet type the sheets run from a one-dollar bill with prices in dimes up to a fifty and a hundred. Prices ending in 99¢ show why counting up beats borrowing: $14.99 is one cent short of $15.00. Press Make a new sheet for new prices, then Print. The answer key shows the working under every answer.

Have students say the price aloud, then count on to the next dollar before they write anything.
Begin with prices in dimes from a one-dollar bill: every answer is a whole number of dimes.
On the Which bill? sheet, ask why nobody pays for a $6 item with a fifty.

Questions and answers

How do you teach making change?

Start by counting up from the price to the next dollar, then on to the amount paid. For $7.48 paid with $10.00, 52¢ reaches $8.00 and $2.00 reaches $10.00, so the change is $2.52. Written subtraction comes after.

What is counting up to make change?

It is adding on from the price instead of subtracting. From $3.62 you add 38¢ to reach $4.00, then $1.00 to reach $5.00. The two hops, 38¢ and $1.00, are the change: $1.38.

Why do some sheets use prices ending in 99¢?

They are the hardest prices to subtract and the easiest to count up from. $20.00 − $14.99 means regrouping across three zeros. Counting up takes one cent to reach $15.00 and then five dollars: $5.01.

Do students write which coins make the change?

No. Every line asks for the amount of change only, and the key shows the working. To practice the coins, have students list the fewest coins and bills for each answer on the back of the sheet.

All 19 sheet types

Change from $1 3

Change from $1, any price in cents Prices from 1¢ to 99¢, paid with a one-dollar bill. $1.00 − $0.37 = $0.63, so the change is 63¢. The key writes change under a dollar with the cent sign and shows the subtraction beneath it.
Change from $1, prices ending in 9¢ Prices such as 49¢, 79¢ and 99¢. $1.00 − $0.79 = $0.21. One cent reaches the next ten, so the change always ends in 1: 21¢, 51¢, 1¢.
Change from $1, prices in dimes A 70¢ price paid with a one-dollar bill: $1.00 − $0.70 = $0.30, so the change is 30¢. Every price is a whole number of dimes from 10¢ to 90¢, and so is every answer. The gentlest sheet on the page.

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Change from $5 and $10 5

Change from $5, prices ending in 99¢ or 49¢ Shop prices under $5: $3.99, $2.49, 99¢. $5.00 − $3.99 = $1.01 and $5.00 − $2.49 = $2.51. Students who round the price up to the next dollar or half dollar can do these in their heads.
Change from $10, prices in quarters Prices that end in .00, .25, .50 or .75, so the change does too: $10.00 − $6.75 = $3.25. A good sheet for students who count quarters well and are new to subtracting dollars and cents.
Change from $10, prices to the nickel Every price is between $1.00 and $10.00 and ends in 0 or 5 cents. $10.00 − $6.05 = $3.95. Subtracting from $10.00 means regrouping across three zeros.
Change from a five or a ten Prices from $1.00 to $8.00 on the nickel. A price over $5 is paid with a ten and a price under $5 with a five or a ten, so the amount paid has to be read on every line: $5.00 − $4.20 = $0.80 and $10.00 − $6.05 = $3.95. The page opens on this sheet.
Pay with a ten: prices to the cent Any price from $1.00 to $10.00, to the cent. $10.00 − $7.48 = $2.52. No price is rounded, so every digit of the answer has to be worked out.

Change from $20, $50 and $100 6

Change from $20, prices ending in 99¢ Every price ends in 99¢: $9.99, $14.99. $20.00 − $14.99 = $5.01. Think of $15.00, take it from $20.00 and add back the cent.
Change from $20, prices to the nickel Prices from $5.00 to $20.00 on the nickel, paid with a twenty-dollar bill: $20.00 − $14.35 = $5.65.
Change from $50 Prices from $20.00 to $50.00, to the cent, paid with a fifty-dollar bill: $50.00 − $33.81 = $16.19.
Change from $100 Prices from $50.00 to $100.00 on the nickel, paid with a hundred-dollar bill: $100.00 − $77.60 = $22.40.
Pay with a twenty: prices to the cent Prices from $1.00 to $20.00, to the cent. $20.00 − $12.89 = $7.11. The change can be more than the price, which surprises students the first time.
Which bill? Change from $10, $20 or $50 Prices from $5.00 to $45.00. Each is paid with one of the two smallest bills that cover it, as a shopper would: $20.00 − $14.35 = $5.65 and $50.00 − $33.80 = $16.20. Students must read the amount paid on every line.

Counting change back 5

Count up from the price to $10 From $5.10, 90¢ makes $6.00 and $4.00 more makes $10.00: the change is $4.90. Prices are on the nickel. Counting up needs no borrowing at all.
Count up from the price to $20 From $14.35, 65¢ makes $15.00 and $5.00 more makes $20.00: the change is $5.65.
Count up to $1 from a price in nickels Counting on from the price, the way a cashier hands change back. From 65¢, 35¢ more makes a dollar: 65¢ + 35¢ = $1.00. The key shows the sum under each answer.
Count up to a fifty or a hundred Prices from $20.00 to $95.00 on the nickel, paid with a fifty or a hundred. From $77.60, 40¢ makes $78.00 and $22.00 more makes $100.00: the change is $22.40.
Count up to a five from prices to the cent Two hops: first to the next whole dollar, then to $5.00. From $3.62, 38¢ makes $4.00 and $1.00 more makes $5.00, so the change is $1.38. The key prints both hops.

How this list was compiled: Own list of sheet types, written 2026-10-01. Every price is drawn fresh for each sheet and printed on its own line beside the amount paid; no real shop, brand or price is quoted. All amounts are whole cents, and every worked example was checked with exact arithmetic in cents. Standards read in the full texts on 2026-10-03: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf (2.MD.8, word problems with dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies; 4.MD.2, word problems with the four operations including money), and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC chapter 111, https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/ch111a.pdf (4.8(C), problems that deal with money using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division). Licence: own work