St Patrick's Day Math Worksheets

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These St. Patrick's Day math worksheets open on a grade 2 sheet of coins to count, up to 99¢. The Sheet type menu holds 18 sheets from kindergarten to grade 5, with stories about shamrocks, parades and pots of gold.

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How to make a St. Patrick's Day math worksheet

The page opens on Leprechaun's purse: eight collections of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. Coins run from largest to smallest, each with its value printed on it. Spilled pot mixes the order. Choose 4, 6, 8 or 12 under Problems, press Make a new sheet, then Print. The answer key follows on its own page.

A St. Patrick's Day math worksheet for each grade

Kindergarten counts leaves and adds gold coins within 10. Grade 1 adds three numbers: 7 + 3 + 4 stickers on a leprechaun trap. Grade 3 multiplies the three leaves of a shamrock. Grade 4 lines up 59 marchers in rows of 8 and asks about the remainder.

St. Patrick's Day math worksheets, free to print, pair well with real coins: pupils lay out each collection on the desk before they count on.
The gold coins in the stories are pretend. The two coin sheets draw quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, the coins pupils must learn to count.

Questions and answers

When is St. Patrick's Day in 2027?

March 17, as every year: by tradition the day Saint Patrick died. In 2027 that is a Wednesday and in 2028 a Friday, so both fall on school days.

How many leaves does a shamrock have?

Three. In the legend, Saint Patrick taught with a three-leaved shamrock, and wearing shamrocks or green on March 17 is the custom. The grade 3 fact sheet multiplies by three: 8 shamrocks have 24 leaves.

How many colors are in a rainbow?

Seven by tradition: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, a list that goes back to Isaac Newton. A real rainbow is one continuous band with no edges between the colors.

What coins do second graders count?

Common Core grade 2 asks pupils to solve problems with dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, using the $ and ¢ signs. The two coin sheets stay under one dollar and are answered in cents.

All 18 sheet types

Kindergarten 4

Coat buttons and stars: count how many in all 3 buttons and 2 stars make 5 in all. Sums stay within 8.
Lucky leaves: count how many leaves in all A row of 4 leaves and a row of 3 leaves make 7 leaves. Pupils touch each leaf once and say the number aloud.
Pot of gold: addition stories within 10 5 gold coins under the rainbow and 3 more by the pot make 8 gold coins. Yellow counters stand in for the coins.
Shamrock subtraction stories within 10 9 gold coins are in the pot and 4 are taken, so 5 are left. Act it out with counters in a cup.

Grade 1 3

Gold coin addition stories within 20 A pot holds 9 big gold coins and 6 small ones, which is 15. Make ten first: 9 + 1 + 5.
Rainbow subtraction stories within 20 A rainbow chain has 16 links and 7 are green, so 9 are gold. Count up from 7 to 16 to check.
Shamrocks, coins and hats: add three numbers A trap has 7 gold stickers, 3 green stickers and 4 rainbow stickers, which is 14. Make ten with 7 + 3, then add 4.

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Grade 2 4

Gold coin subtraction stories within 100 A pot held 72 gold coins and 35 were given away, so 37 are left. Open a ten first, because 2 ones are too few to take 5 from.
Leprechaun's purse: count the coins to 99¢ The coins are drawn from largest to smallest: 2 quarters, a dime, a nickel and 3 pennies are 68¢. Count on from the quarters: 25, 50, 60, 65, 66, 67, 68.
Parade addition stories within 100 The first band has 38 marchers and the second has 27, which is 65. Add the ones first and carry the ten.
Spilled pot: count mixed-up coins to 99¢ The coins are drawn in any order. Pupils circle the quarters first, then the dimes, nickels and pennies: 25¢ + 25¢ + 10¢ + 5¢ + 2¢ = 67¢.

Grade 3 3

Pots of gold: multiplication stories 4 pots with 9 gold coins in each hold 36 gold coins. Each pot is one equal group.
Shamrock leaves and rainbow colors: facts to multiply A shamrock has three leaves, so 8 shamrocks have 24 leaves. A rainbow is drawn with seven colors, so 6 rainbows need 42 stripes.
Sharing the gold: division stories within 100 6 leprechauns share 54 gold coins equally and get 9 each. The matching fact is 6 × 9 = 54.

Grade 4 2

Parade rows and coin bags: what happens to the remainder? 59 marchers line up in rows of 8. That makes 7 full rows with 3 marchers left, because 59 ÷ 8 = 7 R 3.
St. Patrick's Day multiplication: 2 digits by 1 digit 7 parade rows of 34 marchers hold 238 marchers: 7 × 30 = 210 and 7 × 4 = 28.

Grade 5 2

Chocolate coin division: divide by 2 digits 360 chocolate coins packed 15 to a bag fill 24 bags. Check with 24 × 15 = 360.
Parade multiplication: 2 digits by 2 digits A parade has 16 rows of 25 marchers, which is 400 marchers. Split it: 10 × 25 = 250 and 6 × 25 = 150.

How this list was compiled: The stories, their wording and the teaching notes are our own work. The numbers and the coins are drawn fresh for every sheet and each answer key is worked out from what is printed on that sheet. Two facts were checked on 2026-09-20: the shamrock of the legend is three-leaved (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day), and the seven rainbow colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet are Isaac Newton's division of a continuous band (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow). Gold coin, parade, cookie and ribbon numbers are invented for the stories. Grade labels follow the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, read on 2026-09-20 in the California Department of Education copy, https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/ccssmathstandardaug2013.pdf. Licence: own work