Counting Coins

15 FREE Resources Exploring “Counting Coins”

Teaching Young Learners Coins

One of the most challenging math concepts to teach young learners is counting change. Over the years I have found some fun activities to explore with kids, it eases the stress they have when it doesn’t compute. Here are 15 FREE resources to help with lesson planning or extra help at home. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases from links in this blog.

Included in this post are some online books, learning videos and some free digital downloads from some amazing teachers from TpT. Thank you, and happy teaching!

Teaching Tips

There are some simple things that can help with teaching and earning coins, here are just a few tips:

• Teach skip counting by 5’s and 10’s read more about “Counting by 5’s” CLICK HERE!
• Introduce one coin at a time.
  • Pennies (counting by ones)
  • Nickels (counting by fives)
  • Dimes (counting by tens)
  • Quarters (counting by 25 to one dollar)
• Use real coins for practice
  • Kids are more receptive to the responsibility of real money.
  • Each school year, I add coins as part of the school supplies list, and send them home at the end of the year.
  • They love the feel and the sound of coins.
  • Be sure to have children wash their hands after using money.
• Repetition
  • The more children repeat the better and faster they will be with counting money.
  • Watching learning videos over and over is beneficial and fun for children.
• Once children are familiar with the coins set up a coin sorting center.
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  • Create your own with plastic plates, boxes or use these sorting sheets from our Pirate’s Treasure Coin Counting Packet.
• When starting to add us all the same coins
  • Adding practice with only pennies
  • Adding practice with only nickels
  • Adding practice with pennies and nickels, and so on…
• Use counting centers and games see our “PIRATE Treasure”Coin Counting Packet for more cool activities.

Online Books

There are many books about money. Some you might even have at home or in the school classroom. Here are some online readings of a few books to help children understand about money.

If You Made a Million

This is a wonderful book and this video is an animated version of If You Made a Million from Scholastic Storybook Treasures.

The Coin Counting Book

The Coin Counting Book is the perfect book to introduce children to coins.

Benny’s Penny

Benny’s Penny is a simple book about what a boy can purchase with his five pennies.

A Dollar for Penny

A Dollar for Penny is a sweet book about a little girl collecting pennies for selling lemonade.

Curious George Saves His Pennies

In this book George saves his money to make a purchase from the toy store.

Below are some other recommendations for books to add to any library for kids who are learning about coins and money.

Coin Videos

There are many videos for learning and reinforcing coins. Here are some tried and true videos that kids love and adults can appreciate.

Coins

A quartet sings about coins in this fabulous video introducing coins. The song is catchy and kids will watch this almost everyday if you let them. The evidence is in over 8.6 million views!

Money Song

This money song is one of my favorites. It starts slow and builds up speed, so fun!

Money Song, Show Me the Money a Coin Song

Jack Hartmann has dedicated his life to helping kids learn with his catchy tunes. Young kids will appreciate the theatrics, too!

Coin Value Song

Mr. R’s teaching songs are great, too!

Nickelish

Songeez has a video for each of the coins: Pennies, Nickels, Dimes and Quarters. They have moved from YouTube to KindieTV.

Printable Resources

The last few resources are from some of my peers at Teacher Pay Teacher. Even if you are not a traditional classroom teacher, any caregiver can download free and/or purchase these teachers created resources from the TpT website.

Pirate’s Treasure Counting Coins

President’s Day Freebie – Differentiated Biography of Abraham Lincoln

Here a biography of Abraham Lincoln, text dependent questions, and a “fun facts” poster.

Thomas Jefferson Fact Book

This is a fact book students can create and cut into the shape of a nickel.

Timelines – John F. Kennedy

Kids will want to know a little about who is on the half dollar.

George Washington – Presidents Day

A book highlighting the points in George Washington’s life.

If you like these free resources please consider following these teacher creators. They are always developing new and cool things, for you and I, to share with young learners.

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