Preview: Making Change
💰 Making Change
Money math uses decimals. Count coins and bills carefully. Making change is subtraction in real life!
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About This Making Change — Money
This free printable making change worksheet builds money skills through identifying coins, counting mixed amounts, and making change. Realistic shopping problems connect the math to everyday spending and saving.
What Students Will Learn
Students learn to recognize coins and bills, count and compare amounts, and solve problems involving making change and simple budgets. These skills build decimal understanding and practical financial literacy.
How Teachers Can Use This Worksheet
- Real or play coins: Use real or plastic coins so students can feel and sort them before counting — tactile practice speeds up recognition.
- Store role-play: Set up a simple classroom store and have students "buy" items, counting out exact amounts and receiving change.
- Skip-count practice: Practice counting by 5s, 10s, and 25s aloud to build the skip-counting skills money requires.
How Parents and Homeschoolers Can Use This Worksheet
Let your child count the change jar, pay for a small item at the store, or total a short shopping list. Talk about the value of each coin and practice making amounts in different ways. Real coins are the best manipulative there is.
Skills Covered
coin recognition · counting money · making change · word problems · financial literacy