Counting coins

Real US denominations — pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters — laid out in rows to add up. Each page keeps to one unit, because mixing dollars and cents into a single answer needs decimals, which are years away.

Ages 6–9 · 2 pages

Download US Letter PDFor A4

How to use it

This sheet is drawn for one country only. The coins in a US pocket are not the coins in a German or Polish one, so the German and Polish editions of this page are different sheets rather than translations — a worksheet full of quarters is no use to a child holding euros. Real coins on the table beside the page help more than anything we can print: the value is written on our discs, which is exactly the crutch a real coin does not give you.

Every page in this pack

  1. Counting coins page 1: five rows of pennies, nickels and dimes to add up to 50 cents.

    Up to 50 cents

  2. Counting coins page 2: five rows including quarters, adding up to one dollar.

    Up to one dollar

Printing notes

  • Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — scaling shrinks the digits and the whole point is that your child writes them at a steady size.
  • Black-and-white and draft mode are fine. Nothing on these sheets depends on colour.
  • Slide a sheet into a punched pocket and a dry-wipe pen turns one page into a hundred goes.

The thinking behind it

How to Teach a Child to Count Money — Read the full guide