Economics for Kids: Counting Coins and Money

You can’t get along in the world unless you understand the value of both coins and bills. Counting money is a math subject that everyone needs to learn. Although math may seem boring sometimes, it doesn’t have to be. You can become an expert at counting money if you spend some time with lessons and activities, but you can also learn from playing fun games. Once you take a little time to learn about money, you’ll be ready to start making your own purchases before you know it!

• Money Sorting Mat: You can learn how to sort money by printing out and using this free mat. Place the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters where they go on the mat.
• Free Counting Money Clip Cards for Coins: Make these money clip cards out of card stock, and then laminate them. Then, you can practice counting coins with the cards.
• Teaching Money: It’s always best to use actual coins as you practice counting money, because this allows you to actually look at the fronts and backs of the coins as you learn about them.
• Counting Coins: Look at the coins shown on the screen carefully and then add them up. Enter the correct value in the box and click “submit” to check your answer.
• An Introduction to Coins: This lesson takes you through learning to recognize pennies, nickels, and dimes. You’ll also learn about how coins circulate in the United States.
• Going Shopping: This money activity involves using play money and making a store with objects you have at home. You’ll make price tags and figure out how to make change when someone buys something.
• Making Change: A Co-Teaching Lesson Plan: You’ll need some play bills and coins as you go through this activity, which asks you to make decisions about what to buy, pay money, and check your change.
• Counting Money Game: Choose your level to play a game that involves counting money and collecting fish to put in an aquarium.
• Count Money Game: Play this game by looking at the coins shown. You have to identify the coins and then count the value to choose the total value of the coins.
• Coins for Candy: Choose the level of difficulty for this game, and then you’ll see an item with a price tag. Drag the coins up to the center of the screen to make the amount you need to buy the item.
• Cash Out Game: You’re the checkout person in this game, and you have to make as many sales for your customers as possible within the time limit.
• Do You Have Enough Money? A Counting Money Game: The challenge of this game is figuring out if you have enough money when you go to the store to buy things.
• Adding Money Counting Game: You’ll be learning about the different coins as you play this game. Just click and drop the coins into the machine to pay the right amount for each item.
• Fruit Splat Coins: Click the fruit that shows the amount of money you have to splat the fruit and earn points.
• MathPup Truck Money: Play this game by dropping the correct number of coins into the truck.
• Coin Money: Review the coins shown on this page. You can see what they look like and learn how much each coin is worth.
• Counting Money Games: Look through the games outlined on this page so you can learn about money, how much it’s worth, and how to add it up.
• Practice Counting Money Game: In this game, you place some coins on a table to match the amount your helper asked for.
• Coins! Listen to this fun song to learn more about how much money is worth.