Grades 3–4
Saving Up
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Math worksheet · Money counting and making change
Add and Subtract Money
Fifteen stacked problems with dollars and cents. Line up the decimal points and regroup like whole numbers.
- Grade level
- Grades 3–4
- Time
- About 20 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Coin and bill values, Counting money, Making change, Decimals with money
What kids do
“Line up the decimal points. Add or subtract. Put the $ and the point in your answer.”
Teacher tip
Line up the decimal points with a colored pencil line down the page.
How to use it
- Hand out real or play coins so kids can sort and count them first.
- Teach kids to count the biggest coins first, then count on.
- Do the first problem together under a document camera, then let kids finish on their own.
Watch for
Counting every coin as one cent or as the same value. Sort by coin first.
Talk about it
- How do you count up to find change?
- Which problem was the hardest? What made it hard?
Take it further
Ask kids to count the coins in a jar at home with a grown-up.
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