Best Buy (Calculator) | GCSE Maths Foundation Worksheet | Exam-Style Questions | Printable PDF

Help your students practise Best Buy and Value for Money questions with this carefully structured GCSE Foundation worksheet. Designed in an exam-style format, this printable PDF gradually builds confidence through a variety of calculator-based questions using realistic shopping and everyday contexts.

Ideal for classroom lessons, homework, revision, intervention, independent study, or end-of-topic assessments.

What’s Included

• 20 exam-style practice questions
• Fully worked step-by-step solutions
• Calculator worksheet
• Printable PDF
• Progressive difficulty
• Real-life problem-solving contexts

Skills Covered

• Comparing prices and choosing the best value
• Finding unit prices
• Calculating cost per item, per 100 g, per litre, per 100 ml and per square metre
• Working with grams, kilograms, millilitres and litres
• Comparing multi-buy offers
• Using percentage discounts
• Calculating savings
• Buying whole numbers of packs
• Solving multi-step money problems

Question Breakdown

• Questions 1–2: Simple unit price calculations
• Questions 3–10: Comparing best value using unit prices
• Questions 11–17: Multi-step best buy problems involving discounts, offers and savings
• Questions 18–20: Cheapest price problems involving packs and individual items

Perfect For

• GCSE Maths Foundation
• Year 10
• Year 11
• Homework
• Revision
• Independent practice
• Intervention
• End-of-topic assessments
• Cover lessons

Students are encouraged to show full working throughout, helping develop both exam technique and mathematical reasoning.