3rd Grade Money Math Worksheets

These free printable 3rd grade money math worksheets give kids real-life practice with grocery shopping, prices, budgets, and change.

The 3-page set is Week 3 of our growing 3rd grade math series. Each week provides a variety of math practice designed to be spread throughout the week, with new skills mixed with review of concepts kids have already learned.

This week’s grocery store theme has third graders working with dollars and cents while practicing addition, subtraction, rounding, place value, estimation, and multi-step word problems.

How to Use These 3rd Grade Money Worksheets

These worksheets are designed to provide a week’s worth of 3rd grade math practice. Kids can work through about one page a day, or complete smaller sections each day if that works better for your child.

Before beginning a page, take a few minutes to go over the math concepts they’ll be using. Once they understand what to do, they can work through the activities at their own pace.

For some of the calculations, especially on the first 2 pages, kids will probably need a separate sheet of paper to work out their answers.

This is Week 3 of a growing series of 3rd grade homeschool curriculum worksheets. You can use the weeks in order for regular math practice or choose individual sets based on the skills your child needs to work on.

Difficulty Level

These grocery store worksheets are designed for 3rd grade students.

Kids will practice:

• reading and working with dollars and cents
• adding and subtracting money amounts
• finding change
• working within a budget
• rounding prices to the nearest dollar
• decimal place value
• using repeated addition with prices and quantities
• solving multi-step money word problems
• estimating and finding exact shopping totals

The worksheets begin with shorter calculations before moving into more challenging shopping and budget problems.

There is some regrouping when adding and subtracting money amounts.

The worksheets gradually progress from individual skills to multi-step problems. By the final page, students need to read a price list, decide what calculations are needed, and use their answers to make shopping decisions.

Grocery Store Money Worksheets

This printable includes 3 grocery store math worksheets for third graders. The activities progress from shorter money calculations to multi-step shopping problems.

Grocery Store Math Worksheet

Kids will round grocery prices to the nearest dollar, review place value with a grocery receipt, and add dollars and cents to find shopping totals.

They’ll also compare pairs of groceries to find the cheaper option.

Shopping Budgets and Change

Students decide if they have enough money for a purchase and calculate how much they’ll have left or still need.

They’ll also practice finding change and use repeated addition to calculate the cost of buying several of the same item.

Grocery Store Word Problems

Using a grocery price list, kids solve multi-step money word problems involving totals, change, and budgets.

They’ll also choose items that fit a set budget, find a cheaper substitute, and use rounding to estimate a grocery total.

Download and Print

The 3rd grade money math worksheets are free to download.

Fill out one of the forms on this page, and the PDF will be emailed to you.

To print only the worksheet pages, print pages 1-3.

The worksheets are black and white, making them economical to print at home.

The last page of the PDF has the direct link to the answer key below. So later when you. need it, click on the answer key link, and it will take you directly to the section below.

Practice Money Math at the Grocery Store

A weekly grocery trip is an easy opportunity to practice some of these same money skills in real life. Give your third grader one or two math jobs while you shop, such as:

• Estimate the cost. Have them round a few prices to the nearest dollar and keep a running estimate of the total.
• Compare prices. Choose two similar products and ask which costs less and how much less.
• Work with a budget. Give them a small pretend budget, such as $10, and let them find 2 or 3 items they could buy without going over.
• Keep a running total. Have them add the prices of a few items as they go. They can use paper and pencil if they need it.
• Predict the change. Before paying with cash, tell them the total and amount you’re paying with and see if they can figure out the change.
• Check the receipt. At home, choose a few items from the receipt to add together, or compare the actual total with an estimate they made at the store.

They don’t need to do all of these during one shopping trip. Choosing just one gives them a chance to see how the math they’re practicing on the worksheets is useful outside of a math lesson.

Answer Key

The answer keys are organized by page and activity, making it easy to find the section you need.

Page 1 – Round the Price Answers

Round each grocery price to the nearest dollar.

Page 1 – Receipt Peek Answers

Use the $32.38 receipt total to answer the place value questions and write the amount in expanded form.

Page 1 – Cart Totals Answers

Add the grocery prices in each cart to find the total cost.

Page 1 – Spend Less Answers

Find the total cost of each grocery pair and compare the amounts to see which pair costs less.

Page 2 – Can You Afford It? Answers

Compare each grocery cost with the available budget, then find how much money is left or how much more is needed.

Page 2 – Find Your Change Answers

Subtract each purchase price from the amount paid to find the correct change.

Page 2 – Stock Your Cart Answers

Use repeated addition to find the cost of buying several of each item, then add the amounts to find the cart total.

Page 3 – At the Checkout Answers

Use the grocery price list to solve each shopping problem.

A. $17.25 spent; $2.75 left

B. $6.75 change

C. Answers will vary. One possible answer: frozen pizza, grapes, and oranges = $15.00

D. No. The groceries cost $9.00, so Noah needs $1.00 more.

E. The groceries cost $21.75, so Mia cannot afford them. Answers will vary. One possible solution is to replace the $4.25 grapes with $2.50 bread for a new total of $20.00.

F. Estimated total: $11.00; exact total: $10.24; difference: $0.76.

For more printable practice for other grades and math skills, visit our math worksheets collection.