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3rd grade · Math · Unit 17 of 18

Coins & Bills

Count coins and bills

What your child practices

Your child finds the value of a mix of US coins and bills, writes it with the dollar sign and decimal point, and finds change.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.4(C) · finding the value of a collection of coins and bills

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Count the bills first, starting with the one worth the most.
  2. Then count on with the coins: quarters, dimes, nickels, then pennies.
  3. Write the total with a dollar sign and a decimal point, like $6.35.

Example: How much are a $5 bill, a $1 bill, 1 quarter and 1 dime? Bills: $5 + $1 = $6. Count on 25¢ and 10¢: $6.25, $6.35. Answer: $6.35

Coins & Bills in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 17 of 18 in 3rd grade Math, after Scaled Graphs and before Money Choices.

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

    Grace has 2 $5 bills and 4 quarters. How much money is that?

    • $10.75
    • $16.00
    • $11.25
    • $11.00

  2. Question 2

    How much are 5 quarters worth?

    • 50¢
    • $1.50
    • $1.00
    • $1.25

  3. Question 3

    Luis has 1 $5 bill and 3 quarters. How much money is that?

    • $5.50
    • $10.75
    • $5.75
    • $6.00

  4. Question 4

    A book costs $2.55. You pay with a $5 bill. How much change do you get?

    • $2.45
    • $2.50
    • $3.45
    • $2.40

  5. Question 5

    A book costs $1.65. You pay with a $5 bill. How much change do you get?

    • $3.30
    • $3.35
    • $3.40
    • $4.35

  6. Question 6

    How much money is this?

    $5
    25¢
    5¢
    5¢
    1¢
    • $5.31
    • $6.36
    • $5.41
    • $5.36

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