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1st Grade Money Worksheets

Pennies, nickels and dimes to 50¢. Answer key on the last page.

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Printing tips
  • Uncheck Headers and footers in the print dialog for a clean sheet.
  • Set Scale to 100% (Default), not “Fit to page” — that keeps Actual size coins actually the right size, so a real quarter laid on the paper matches.
  • Printing double-sided? The answer key would land on the back of the student’s sheet. Turn Include answer key off, print the sheets, then use Answer key only under More options.
  • Everything prints in plain black and white — you can leave “Background graphics” off.
Worksheet
Coins
Problems

Prints 2 pages: 1 worksheet page + 1 answer key page.

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Coin size

Versions in one print job

The year the dime shows up

First grade is where counting by fives and counting by tens have to happen in the same pile. The default sheet here does exactly that: pennies, nickels and dimes, totals to 50¢, piles of no more than six coins, sorted largest first so the count runs 10, 20, 25, 26, 27. Values are printed on the coin faces at this range — recognition is still being built, and the sheet is about counting, not about remembering what a nickel is worth.

Which is worth more?

Switch the worksheet type to Which is worth more? for the other essential 1st grade money skill. Each row shows two boxed groups and the student circles the one worth more. Roughly half the rows are deliberate traps: five pennies against one dime, three nickels against a quarter — many coins on one side, real value on the other. More coins is not more money, and one row of that lands harder than any amount of explaining.

Reading the answer key

Counting keys print the running total, so 2 dimes, 1 nickel, 3 pennies → 10, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28 = 28¢ shows you where a wrong answer came from. Comparison keys name the side and both totals: Right — 30¢ vs 45¢.

Moving on

When 50¢ is comfortable, move the Coins chip to All coins · to $1 to bring in quarters, or switch to word problems for the sentence-shaped version of the same counting.

See also: all counting money worksheets · kindergarten money worksheets · 2nd grade money worksheets.