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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 11 of 12

Coins

Name pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters

What your child practices

Your child names the four US coins (penny, nickel, dime and quarter) by how they look, and learns that coins are money we use to pay for things.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.4 · naming US coins, including pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A penny is brown. A nickel, dime and quarter are silver.
  2. The dime is the smallest coin. The quarter is the biggest.
  3. Look at the size and the picture to name a coin.

Example: A coin is silver and the smallest of all. What is it? It is silver, so it is not a penny. The smallest silver coin is the dime. Answer: dime

Coins in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 12 in Kindergarten Math, after Sort & Count and before Work, Wants & Needs.

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

    Which coin has Thomas Jefferson on it?

    • 5¢
    • 1¢
    • 10¢
    • 25¢

  2. Question 2

    Which coin is silver and the biggest?

    • nickel
    • penny
    • dime
    • quarter

  3. Question 3

    Which coin is brown, not silver?

    • 1¢
    • 5¢
    • 10¢
    • 25¢

  4. Question 4

    How many cents is a quarter worth?

    • 25 cents
    • 5 cents
    • 1 cent
    • 10 cents

  5. Question 5

    How many cents is a penny worth?

    • 5 cents
    • 10 cents
    • 25 cents
    • 1 cent

  6. Question 6

    What is this coin called?

    10¢
    • nickel
    • quarter
    • dime
    • penny

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