Prepare your Year 6 students for the financial mathematics requirements of the KS2 SATs with this comprehensive 30-question practice booklet. This resource focuses on developing fluency with currency, providing a wide range of calculations and multi-step word problems involving pounds and pence.

This 9-page resource includes:

• 30 SATs-Style Questions: A diverse selection of 1, 2, and 3-mark questions that mirror the format and difficulty of national assessments.
• Essential Formatting Tips: The booklet includes a reminders section to ensure students use correct notation, such as including £ or p signs and formatting decimals correctly (e.g., £2.50).
• Realistic Scenarios: Features problems based on shopping, price comparisons, school fundraisers, and calculating change to give mathematics a real-world context.
• Full Mark Scheme: A detailed answer key is provided at the end of the booklet, outlining the specific calculation steps and marking points for every question.

Topics Covered:

• Currency Conversion: Converting between pence and pounds, and working with fractional amounts of money.
• The Four Operations: Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing money in context.
• Rounding and Estimating: Rounding prices to the nearest pound and identifying the largest/smallest amounts in a set.
• Consumer Math: Calculating the cost of multiple items, finding the change from a note, and identifying the “cheaper” option between different deals.
• Multi-Step Reasoning: Solving complex problems involving percentages (e.g., 20% off), fractions of an amount, and total costs for groups of adults and children.

Recommended Time: 45 minutes.