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1st grade · Math · Unit 16 of 16

Coins & Cents

Name coins and count cents

What your child practices

US coins: naming the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, knowing what each is worth, writing cents with the ¢ sign, and counting a mix of dimes and pennies up to 100¢.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.20 · naming pennies and dimes and knowing what each is worth

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A penny is 1¢, a nickel 5¢, a dime 10¢ and a quarter 25¢.
  2. Count dimes by tens: 10, 20, 30.
  3. Then count on 1 for each penny.

Example: How much are 3 dimes and 4 pennies? Dimes: 10, 20, 30. Pennies: 31, 32, 33, 34. Answer: 34¢

Coins & Cents in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 16 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after Picture Graphs.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which shows 81 cents?

    • $81
    • 81¢
    • 18¢

  2. Question 2

    How many nickels make a quarter?

    • 5
    • 6
    • 10
    • 4

  3. Question 3

    Which coin is worth the least?

    • 1¢
    • 10¢
    • 25¢

  4. Question 4

    Count by tens. How many cents?

    10¢
    10¢
    10¢
    10¢
    10¢
    10¢
    10¢
    10¢
    10¢
    • 19¢
    • 100¢
    • 70¢
    • 90¢

  5. Question 5

    What is this coin called?

    5¢
    • nickel
    • dime
    • penny

  6. Question 6

    Ana has 7 dimes and 6 pennies. How many cents?

    • 67¢
    • 13¢
    • 86¢
    • 76¢

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