Practice Money Counting in Math

Use these practice problems to test your method after reviewing the concept explanation and worked examples.

Quick Recap

Identifying coins and bills by their value and adding them together to find a total amount of money.

Each coin is like a shortcut for counting—a nickel is a bundle of 5 pennies, a dime is 10 pennies, and a quarter is 25 pennies. Counting money is like skip counting with different-sized jumps.

Example 1

easy
You have 2 dimes and 3 pennies. How much money do you have in total?

Example 2

medium
You have 1 quarter, 2 nickels, and 4 pennies. How much money is that altogether?

Example 3

easy
You have 3 nickels and 2 pennies. How many cents do you have?

Example 4

medium
You want to buy a snack that costs 50 cents. You have 1 quarter and 3 dimes. Do you have enough money? How much do you have?
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