Counting Money Printables & Activities

Our Counting Money Printables & Activities combine many subjects. How the currency is made involves science. History tells how currency got its start. Math and economics are found in their value. Language can be studied as you inspect, observe, and learn the importance of the written words in our currency.

As adults, we tend to take the symbols and meanings that are inscribed on our currency for granted. We have forgotten the importance of the words, “In God we trust,” and, “liberty.” When learning about money, you have the liberty to teach your child about the living God who this phrase is referring to. If you like these counting money counting printables & activities, you are sure to love our other elementary math resources, including our Time & Clock Activities and Place Value Printables.

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Let's Learn The U.S. Coins

Let's Learn The Coins from Marie

The slideshow, “Let’s Learn the U.S. Coins” is an awesome way to introduce the 4 most common U.S. coins to your early learner. It features the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. Let’s Learn the Coins focuses on the value of each coin, the face that adorns it, and points out how many of each coin it takes to equal a dollar! Great resource!

Counting money books...

Using books that teach about your topic is ideal for any unit study. The Coin Counting Book is one such reader. It pertains to what you are teaching and reinforces learned material. Another one to consider is the Berenstain Bears’ Dollars and Sense.

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Introduction To Coins

When teaching money to your student, hands-on activities are a sure-fire activity! Most kids will choose to learn by doing rather than other learning methods. In this post, you will be encouraged to introduce coins through sorting activities. Read on to download your own copy of the FREE Coin Sorting sheet!

The Lincoln Penny Reader

This is the perfect reader for young learners to use when first being introduced to money. You will need to print it, cut it in half horizontally, and then staple it into a book. DOWNLOAD LINCOLN PENNY READER! Happy learning!

Counting Money Slideshow

Counting Money from Marie Nimmons

The slideshow, “Counting Money,” features 9 money counting questions. Each slide focuses on how many of one coin equals another. For example, how many nickels equal a quarter. This is an effective tool to use when elementary students are learning about money. Try having your child use play money as you navigate this slideshow. Help your child to lay out their coins to answer the question. Only continue to the next slide once you are ready to check your answer! Happy learning!

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Counting Money 2 Slideshow

Counting Money 2 from Marie Nimmons

This slideshow features 14 counting coins questions. Each slide features a set of coins that the student is to count. You can work along side your student to help them find the answer or your student can challenge themselves to figure it out independently. The answer is given for each slide on the subsequent slide. The coins will equal $.50 or less. Happy learning!

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Write & Wipe Counting Money Printables

These Write & Wipe Coin Counting Sheets are reusable! Just print these on card stock for durability and then laminate. You can choose to cut them into cards or not. I personally leave them as sheets. The kids use dry erase markers to write their answers. These money counting cards only go up to $.50. Download here or click on image.

Create Your own Money Poster

This is one of our favorite activities to do when we are learning about money. Once we have established the names and values of each coin, my child and I work together to construct a poster that is literally covered in coins. Let me explain.

We start with the 4 main types of coins: pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. At the top of our poster we tape a $1 bill and write next to it, “$1 Dollar Bill.” Then come the pennies… all 100 of them! We tape 100 pennies to the poster in 10 lines of 10. Underneath the pennies, my child writes, “100 pennies = $1.” Next, comes the nickels. 20 nickels are taped in rows of fives. Beneath them my child writes, “20 nickels = $1.” Here rolls in the dimes- all 10 of them. The dimes are taped by two’s and then my child writes, “10 dimes = $1.” Finally, the quarters are taped and the words, “4 Quarters = $1” is written.

What I love about this Money Poster is that it is a project we can do all week and it focuses on multiple myriads of math. While counting pennies, we review counting to 100. As we tape nickels, we practice skip counting by 5’s. Counting by tens to 100 is reviewed with the dimes. Love this poster. Happy learning!

Count the Piggy Bank

Sometimes the best tool to teach your child a new skill is right in front of you. In this case, its count the piggy bank. My child starts off with the bills first sorting them into piles, 20’s, 10’s, 5’s, and 1’s. We count how many of each and then move onto coins. Again, my child sorts putting the quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies into separate piles. This is perfect practice. After sorting them, my child puts the quarters into piles of 4, the dimes into stacks of 10, the nickels into groups of 20, and the pennies 100 in a pile. My student then counts it all up! Great way to learn counting money… real world practice!

Money Worksheets by All Kids Network

All Kids Network provides a set of money worksheets that I have used with a number of my children. The coin identification sheets have always been useful to us. They are simple, which is exactly what I need when first introducing the values and names of each coin. All Kids Network also provides worksheets that assist you helping your child count multiple coins. Click here or on the image to be connected to their FREE resources.

Learn the Coins Video

YES! Learn the coins using this educational video. It is a detailed video that will leave no stone unturned when it comes to helping students identify and count U.S. coins!

How Coins are Made

Learn how the United States Mint makes coins! This video shows its viewer step by step how our U.S. coins are made from beginning to end. Check it out!

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