2nd Grade Counting Money (Coins) Worksheet

Coins are worth more than one cent each

The first hurdle in counting money is that a coin’s value isn’t the same as one. A dime is one coin but ten cents. Once students hold each coin’s value in mind, counting money becomes a skip-counting problem: count the quarters, then the dimes by ten, then the nickels by five, then the pennies.

How to use it

Always start with the largest coins. Count “25, 50” for quarters, keep going by tens for dimes, fives for nickels, and ones for pennies. This is exactly why skip counting is such useful practice — and counting by fives is the same skill used in telling time.