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2nd grade · Math · Unit 11 of 16

Dollars & Cents

Count coins and bills

What your child practices

US money: pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills. Counting a handful of coins, making an amount, and word problems with the ¢ and $ signs.

Alaska content standards learning standard: 2.MD.8 · solving problems with dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, using the $ and ¢ symbols

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Penny 1¢, nickel 5¢, dime 10¢, quarter 25¢, dollar $1 (100¢).
  2. Count the biggest coins first.
  3. Then count on with the smaller coins.

Example: A quarter, a dime, a nickel and 2 pennies. How much? 25¢, then 35¢, then 40¢. 2 pennies more: 41¢, 42¢. Answer: 42¢

Dollars & Cents in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 11 of 16 in 2nd grade Math, after Even, Odd and Ordinals and before Five-Minute Clock.

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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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

    Lena has $14. A friend gives Lena $6 more. How many dollars now?

    • $8
    • $30
    • $20
    • $19

  2. Question 2

    How much money is this?

    25¢
    25¢
    5¢
    5¢
    5¢
    • 64¢
    • 65¢
    • 75¢
    • 66¢

  3. Question 3

    Ravi has 3 quarters and 2 dimes. How much money is that?

    • 95¢
    • 90¢
    • 5¢
    • $1.05

  4. Question 4

    How many nickels make a quarter?

    • 4
    • 6
    • 10
    • 5

  5. Question 5

    How much is one dime worth?

    • 50¢
    • 10¢
    • 25¢
    • 5¢

  6. Question 6

    Priya has 99¢ and buys a pencil for 61¢. How much is left?

    • $1.60
    • 48¢
    • 38¢
    • 28¢

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