3rd Grade Count Coins and Bills worksheets

About this worksheet

Texas third graders are expected to determine the value of a collection of coins and bills, TEKS 3. 4(C), a skill Common Core assigns only to second grade under 2. MD. C. 8 and never revisits. This worksheet keeps counting money at a third-grade level: totals move past a single dollar, a collection can mix coins with one-dollar and five-dollar bills, and some problems ask a child to make the same amount two different ways instead of only adding up what is shown. A few items show a picture of real coins to count by value.

Others describe the money in words, the way a receipt or an allowance conversation does, and ask for the change owed back from a purchase. The most common mistake at this age is counting every bill and coin as though each one were worth the same amount, or losing track of dollars and cents when adding several amounts together. Encourage your child to add the bills first, then add the coins from the largest value down to the smallest, and to write every answer with a dollar sign and two decimal places.

What your child will learn

• Find the total value of a mixed collection of coins and bills
• Make the same amount of money two different ways
• Find the change owed back from a purchase
• Compare the value of two collections of money