Drawn coins and bills to count, fewest-coin puzzles and change from $1 and $5, each with a key.
8 problems. Coins and bills to $5, drawn. Sheet 2XLW1S, with its answer key.
Coins and bills to $5, drawn
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Find the value of each collection. Each shape has its value printed on it. Start with the largest value and count on. Write each amount in dollars and cents.
These 3rd grade money worksheets open on drawn coins and bills to count, such as $2.00 + 75¢ + 10¢ + 2¢ = $2.87. Other sheets find the fewest coins for an amount and make change from $1 and $5.
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The order to teach the sheets
For counting money worksheets 3rd grade classes need totals past a dollar. Begin with drawn coins to 99¢ as a grade 2 review, add one-dollar bills and count to $5, then write totals past a dollar in cents (145¢) and in dollars ($1.45). Fewest coins and bills comes next. Change from $1.00, then from $5, comes last.
Plain circles and rectangles
Every coin is a plain circle and every bill a plain rectangle with its value printed on it. Students practice counting, not telling a dime from a nickel by size, so keep real or plastic coins nearby. The answer key groups each kind, as in $1.00 + 25¢ + 40¢ + 1¢ = $1.66, so a slip is easy to place.
Use Coin values and trades warm-up for the first five minutes, before any counting page.
Have students cross off each circle as they count it, so no coin is counted twice or skipped.
Past a dollar, have students say the dollars first, then count on with the coins.
Questions and answers
Is counting money a 3rd grade standard?
In Texas, yes: standard 3.4(C) asks students to determine the value of a collection of coins and bills. Common Core names no money standard in grade 3. It works with coins and bills in grade 2 (2.MD.8) and returns to money in grade 4 (4.MD.2).
What is the difference between 2nd and 3rd grade money worksheets?
Totals past a dollar, and bills mixed in with the coins. Texas grade 2 stops at coin collections up to one dollar (2.5(A)). For money worksheets grade 3 needs more, so these count collections to $5, $20 and $100 and write them in dollars.
Do the sheets use half-dollars and dollar coins?
Half-dollars appear on two sheet types only, Drawn coins with half-dollars and Fewest coins with a half-dollar. The coin circulates, but most people use only quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. Dollar coins are left out, so one dollar is always a bill.
All 26 sheet types
Counting coins 8
All four coins in words4 quarters, 1 dime, 2 nickels and 4 pennies: $1.00 + 10¢ + 10¢ + 4¢ = $1.24. Totals run up to $2.00, so some answers take a cent sign and some a dollar sign and a point.
Coin values and trades warm-upA quarter is worth 25¢, and 1 quarter trades for 5 nickels because 5 × 5¢ = 25¢. A quick fill-in page on the four common coins, for the first five minutes of a money unit.
Count drawn coins to 99¢2 quarters, 1 dime, 1 nickel and 3 pennies: 50¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ + 3¢ = 68¢. The coins are sorted from largest to smallest, so students start at the quarters and count on. A grade 2 review page to begin the unit.
Drawn coins in mixed orderA dime, a quarter, a nickel, a quarter and 2 pennies arrive unsorted. Students regroup from the largest value: 25¢ + 25¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ + 2¢ = 67¢. Crossing off each circle as it is counted stops double counting.
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Counting coins, continued
Drawn coins up to $3.005 quarters, 3 dimes and 2 nickels: $1.25 + 30¢ + 10¢ = $1.65. Every answer is written with a dollar sign and a decimal point, even a total under a dollar such as $0.85. Totals can pass a dollar, which is where Texas grade 3 goes beyond grade 2.
Drawn coins with half-dollars1 half-dollar, 2 quarters, 1 dime and 1 nickel: 50¢ + 50¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ = 115¢. The half-dollar is a circulating coin that few people carry, and it adds a counting by fifties step.
One kind of coin: skip counting7 nickels are 35¢ counting by fives and 9 quarters are $2.25 counting by twenty-fives: 7 × 5¢ = 35¢ and 9 × 25¢ = $2.25. The key prints the whole skip count, 25, 50, 75 and on, under each answer.
Quarters, dimes and nickels in wordsNo picture this time: 3 quarters, 2 dimes and 3 nickels are 75¢ + 20¢ + 15¢ = 110¢. Students multiply each kind first and then add, and the key prints the three subtotals.
Coins and bills together 5
Bills and coins in words, to $502 twenty-dollar bills, 1 five-dollar bill, 3 quarters and 1 dime: $40.00 + $5.00 + 75¢ + 10¢ = $45.85. Larger bills with only quarters and dimes keep the coin part short while the dollars grow.
Bills and coins to $20, drawn1 ten, 1 five, 2 ones, 2 quarters and 1 nickel: $10.00 + $5.00 + $2.00 + 50¢ + 5¢ = $17.55. Students count the bills first, say the dollars, then count on with the coins.
Bills only, to $100, drawn2 twenties, 1 ten, 1 five and 3 ones: $40.00 + $10.00 + $5.00 + $3.00 = $58.00. With no coins in the way, students practice counting by twenties, tens and fives and then counting on by ones.
Coins and bills in words, to $101 five-dollar bill, 3 one-dollar bills, 2 quarters and 4 dimes: $5.00 + $3.00 + 50¢ + 40¢ = $8.90. No picture, so students work out each kind by itself and then add. The key prints the subtotals.
Coins and bills to $5, drawn2 one-dollar bills, 3 quarters, 1 dime and 2 pennies: $2.00 + 75¢ + 10¢ + 2¢ = $2.87. Bills are plain labeled rectangles and coins are plain labeled circles. This is the Texas grade 3 skill, the value of a collection of coins and bills.
Writing amounts with ¢ and $ 2
Cent sign or dollar sign?3 quarters and 2 dimes are 95¢, written with a cent sign. One more dime makes 95¢ + 10¢ = $1.05, written with a dollar sign and a point. An amount never carries both signs.
Count in cents, up to 300¢5 quarters and 2 dimes: 125¢ + 20¢ = 145¢. Writing a total past 100¢ in cents first shows where $1.45 comes from: 100¢ make the dollar and 45¢ are left over.
Fewest coins and bills 5
Fewest bills and coins to $20$17.65 takes 1 ten, 1 five, 2 ones, 2 quarters, 1 dime and 1 nickel: $10.00 + $5.00 + 2 × $1.00 + 2 × 25¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ = $17.65. Eight pieces, found by taking the largest value that fits each time.
Fewest coins and bills to $5$3.40 takes 3 one-dollar bills, 1 quarter, 1 dime and 1 nickel, 6 pieces: 3 × $1.00 + 25¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ = $3.40. Students write how many of each they use and a 0 for any they skip.
Fewest coins to 99¢68¢ takes 2 quarters, 1 dime, 1 nickel and 3 pennies, 7 coins in all: 2 × 25¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ + 3 × 1¢ = 68¢. Start with the largest coin that fits, then the next, and the count is as small as it can be.
Fewest coins with a half-dollar90¢ takes 1 half-dollar, 1 quarter, 1 dime and 1 nickel: 50¢ + 25¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ = 90¢. That is 4 coins, one fewer than the 3 quarters, 1 dime and 1 nickel needed without the half-dollar.
Fewest quarters, dimes and nickels85¢ takes 3 quarters and 1 dime, 4 coins: 3 × 25¢ + 10¢ = 85¢. Every amount ends in 0 or 5, so no pennies are needed and students can think in fives.
Making change from $1 and $5 6
Change from $1.00 by subtractingPrice 35¢, paid $1.00: $1.00 − $0.35 = $0.65, so 65¢ comes back. Every price sits on a nickel, and the change is written with a cent sign.
Change from $5, any centsPrice $1.37, paid $5.00: $5.00 − $1.37 = $3.63. With pennies in the price every column regroups, so this page follows the nickel prices page.
Change from $5, prices to the nickelPrice $3.35, paid $5.00: $5.00 − $3.35 = $1.65. Students line up the decimal points and regroup across the two zeros, the first subtraction of this kind most of them meet.
Change from a one or a fivePrice 85¢ paid with $1.00 returns 15¢, and price $1.85 paid with $5.00 returns $3.15: $1.00 − $0.85 = $0.15 and $5.00 − $1.85 = $3.15. Students read which bill was handed over before they start.
Count up from the price to $5Price $2.80, paid $5.00. Hop 20¢ to reach $3.00, then $2.00 to reach $5.00: 20¢ + $2.00 = $2.20 change. No regrouping is needed, and the key prints both hops.
Count up to $1.00Price 62¢, paid $1.00. Count up from the price until the dollar is reached: 62¢ + 38¢ = $1.00, so the change is 38¢. Prices use any number of cents, which makes this the harder of the two $1.00 sheets.
How this list was compiled: Own list of sheet types, written 2026-09-18 and checked again 2026-09-20. Every worked example was checked with exact arithmetic in whole cents. Coins and bills are printed as plain circles and plain rectangles with the value written on them; nothing on a sheet looks like real currency, and no real price, shop or brand is quoted. Coins and bills, read 2026-09-20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_United_States_dollar (circulating coins exist in denominations of 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢ and $1; use of the half dollar is not widespread, and in practice most Americans use only cents, nickels, dimes and quarters) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar (each dollar is divided into 100 cents; the $ sign is written before the amount; the frequently used coins are 1¢, 5¢, 10¢ and 25¢, the rarely used coins 50¢ and $1, and the frequently used notes $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100). That is why one dollar is always a bill on these sheets and the half-dollar appears on two sheet types only. Standards read in the full texts on 2026-09-19: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf (2.MD.8, 3.OA.3, 3.OA.8, 3.NBT.2, 4.MD.2; the grade 3 measurement and data standards do not mention money), and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC chapter 111, https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/ch111a.pdf (2.5(A), 2.5(B), 3.4(A), 3.4(C), 3.4(K), 3.9(E)). Licence: own work