Product Description
Designed for life skills learners of all ages, this set of task cards offers a clear and supportive way to practice counting US coins. Whether students are just learning the value of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, or working on combining them, these task cards provide step-by-step practice to build real-world money skills.
Students start counting 5 coins progress to counting US coins in mixed sets up to $2. With built-in differentiation, this resource makes it easy to meet learners where they are and help them build confidence with money.
Who are These Coin Counting Task Cards For?
- These cards are designed for students who are just starting out identifying common coins and learning to count money.
- Students should be able to count coins but can practice working on coin value with these cards. The first 4 cards of the set are just single coins before the set moves into 2 coins per card, making them great for beginners.
- They provide excellent practice for elementary, middle and high school students in special education or life skills classrooms.
- Because they use real-life situations, they are great for secondary and transition classrooms to practice their money skills in the classroom as well.
Features of Counting US Coins Task Cards
- Save time and laminate by putting cards in baseball card holders
- The cards are set up so that students count coins that are face up and face down and not in rows, but scattered around as they would be on a counter.
- Coins on the cards are the same size as real coins so they could be matched for manipulatives to count the change.
- Cards have between 4 and 8 coins per card.
- Differentiated cards for specific skills (See What’s Included and the preview for details)
- Cards are all multiple-choice with 3 choices so that students can use dry-erase markers to circle the correct amount and are not required to write the answers.
- Students who are unable to circle could dab the answers with a marker or use a clothespin or paperclip to mark the answer.
- Response sheets (in color and black and white) are also included for students who are able to write their answers of coin values on a separate sheet.
- Cards of grocery store items with price tags for matching prices to coin values.
What’s Included with Counting US Coins Task Cards?
- 36 multiple-choice task cards for counting coins up to $2 in combinations up to 8 coins differentiated by level of difficulty
- Cards 1-6 —combination of 4 coins (3 of the same type; e.g., 3 quarters and 1 dime)
- Cards 7-18 –combination of 5 coins (up to $1)
- Cards 19-24–combination of 6 coins (up to $1)
- Cards 25-30—combination of 6 coins up to $2
- Cards 31-33—combinations of 7 coins up to $2
- Cards 34-36—combinations of 8 coins up to $2
- Cards A-Z and a-d — Cards with grocery items and prices for matching to the task cards with all amounts presented in decimals (rather than with cents signs). For instance, students will match a price tag for $1.22 with a card with 4 quarters, 2 dimes and 2 pennies.
- Answer Keys and Answer Sheets including a shopping list to match the grocery pictures with prices to the money cards
This product by Christine Reeve is copyrighted for single classroom or caseload use only. This product may not be resold and can be copied for personal use within a classroom only. © Christine Reeve
