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Counting money with a hundred chart

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Counting money can be a challenge for some learners. Show them how with a hundred chart!

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

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If you have learners who struggle with counting money, you’ll love today’s hands-on math center!

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

Here’s what you’ll need:

  • real coins (quarters, nickels, dimes, pennies)
  • a hundred chart (get one in the free download)
  • money counting cards (also in the download)
  • a recording sheet (yup – in the download)
  • pencil

I created this activity for students who struggle with counting money OR for students who need an extra challenge.

While this math center would be best for first or second grade, I actually created it for my kindergartner. He often complains that kindergarten math at school is too easy. And since he loves his plastic hundred board, I thought that a hundred chart would be the perfect tool to help him learn to count money.

I suspected he would like this challenge, and I was right!

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

Before we began, we reviewed the name of each coin and its value. He knew them all. (The coins’ values are listed at the bottom of the hundred chart in case your students need a reminder.)

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

Next, we took a pile of each type of coin and determined their value using the chart. As you can see, he put a dime on 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 …

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

He put the nickels on 5, 10, 15, 20, etc.

You get the idea.

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

Once I knew he had the basic understandings, we were ready to practice counting money! I gave him the first card.

He placed the identical coins on each image. This way he had a pile of the money he was to count.

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

Next, he placed each coin on the chart. You can see that he started out correctly – putting the quarter on the 25. But then he got confused when he got to the dimes. Where should they go?

He decided to start back at the top – 10, 20, 30 …

I helped him understand that you have to count up from the last coin. And that ten more than 25 is 35.

Tip: Show your students that every time they move directly down on the hundred chart, they’re adding ten. This makes it very easy to add a dime!

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

Now we were on the right track!

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

After he’d placed the quarter and dimes, he added two nickels and two pennies.

Finally, I helped him count the coins while pointing at them. 25, 35, 45, 55, 60, 65, 66, 67. He needed some help with this, but did well.

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

After he wrote the answer on his recording sheet, we moved on to card #2.

Teach your learners about counting money with this free activity!

And so it went until he had completed half of the cards. We called it quits after that.

Tips for using the activity

  • Model with the whole class first. You can print enlarged copies of coins on cardstock, laminate, and put sticky tack on the back. Then you can use them with an enlarged hundred chart that everyone can see.
  • Make sure your learners know the basics before pulling this out. If they can’t identify coins or name their values, this is going to go over their heads. (Get easier coin activities at the end of this post.)
  • Make sure your students count the coins in this order: quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.
  • If you use this at math centers, be reasonable with your expectations. Tell your students how many of the 12 cards they need to complete. I recommend having different requirements for different students.
  • This is a great partner activity because students can check each other’s work. It’s easy to make a small mistake, but if you pair learners of similar ability together, they are more likely to be successful.
  • Always have students count the coins out loud after completing a card. They can move the coins to see the numbers underneath if they’re having trouble.
  • After your students have done this activity, give them a small pile of coins and see if they can count them without the hundred chart. Let them use the chart if they need help.

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14 Comments

  1. Dewie

    January 28, 2021 at 11:21 am

    thank you Anna for your creative ideas and free resources about coins. kids gain this counting money skill tremendously thanks to you <3.

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    • Heather Groth, Customer Support

      January 28, 2021 at 9:54 pm

      We are so glad this resource has been useful to you and your learners, Dewie!

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  2. Niv

    August 3, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    How to download these worksheets?

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    • Kate Dowling

      August 5, 2020 at 4:08 pm

      Hi Niv!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Please click the green box that says, “To get your free printable, click HERE.” If the green box doesn’t work, you need to disable your ad blocker and refresh the page. The file will open right up on your screen. We hope you find it helpful!

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  3. Michelle McCarthy

    June 14, 2019 at 8:47 am

    I was wondering if you have the directions for Counting Money with a Hundreds Chart in a printable form? I would love to just have the directions and not have to copy and paste off this web page. Thank you!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      June 15, 2019 at 9:27 pm

      If you click all the way down to “print friendly” (a tiny green button at the end) you can delete pictures, ads, etc. before you print.

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  4. Missy

    June 14, 2019 at 5:23 am

    I would have never though to use a 100 chart to count money! Game changer! Thank you!

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  5. MG

    June 13, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    My new favourite use for hundreds charts. Thank you!

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  6. Stacy

    March 11, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful ideas and materials with us all! I am a special Ed teacher and this is a perfect activity for my students. I cannot thank you enough.
    God bless you!

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    • Anna G

      March 12, 2018 at 7:10 am

      You’re very welcome, Stacy!

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  7. kristine

    January 30, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    I can’t wait to try this. I’m a special ed. Teacher;i have a class of 12 and quite a few have coin counting objectives. I also just laminated 100 s charts for them all to use for skip counting and addition/subtraction but I never thought to use them for counting coins….”dah!” ?

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    • Anna G

      February 3, 2018 at 5:38 pm

      Yay – I hope this is helpful for them, Kristine!

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  8. Dominique

    January 28, 2018 at 7:15 am

    These activities with money look perfect for my grade 2 class however: we would need the activity using Canadian coins. Any chance that you have them using Canadian coins as well?

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    • Anna G

      January 28, 2018 at 7:20 am

      No, not this time. 🙂

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