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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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.MD.C.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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic 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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Ana has $9. A friend gives Ana $12 more. How many dollars now?

    • $31
    • $20
    • $3
    • $21

  2. Question 2

    Which coin is worth the most?

    • 10¢
    • 1¢
    • 25¢

  3. Question 3

    1 dollar bill and 3 quarters. How much money?

    $1
    25¢
    25¢
    25¢
    • $1.30
    • $1.50
    • $2.75
    • $1.75

  4. Question 4

    How much is one quarter worth?

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

  5. Question 5

    Make 52¢.

    1¢5¢10¢25¢

  6. Question 6

    How many pennies make a quarter?

    • 24
    • 30
    • 26
    • 25

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