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1st grade · Math · Unit 15 of 16

Coin Values

Coin values and counting coins

What your child practices

Your child names US coins by value, writes amounts with the cent sign (25¢), and counts groups of pennies, nickels and dimes by 1s, 5s and 10s.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.4(A); 1.4(B); 1.4(C) · US coins and their values, the cent sign, and counting pennies, nickels and dimes by 1s, 5s and 10s

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 10s, nickels by 5s and pennies by 1s.
  3. Start with the coin worth the most, then count on.

Example: How much are 2 dimes and 3 pennies? Dimes: 10, 20. Pennies: 21, 22, 23. Answer: 23¢

Coin Values in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 15 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after Picture Graphs and before Spend, Save & Give.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    How much money is this?

    5¢
    5¢
    5¢
    5¢
    5¢
    5¢
    5¢
    • 30¢
    • 35¢
    • 40¢
    • 7¢

  2. Question 2

    How much is this coin worth?

    10¢
    • 1¢
    • 10¢
    • 25¢
    • 5¢

  3. Question 3

    How many pennies make one dime?

    • 9
    • 10
    • 20
    • 11

  4. Question 4

    Which coin is worth 1¢?

    • 5¢
    • 25¢
    • 10¢
    • 1¢

  5. Question 5

    Which coin is worth 10¢?

    • 10¢
    • 25¢
    • 5¢
    • 1¢

  6. Question 6

    Ava has 2 nickels. How much money is that?

    • 5¢
    • 10¢
    • 2¢
    • 15¢

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