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Sort the Coins is a free printable Grade 2 math worksheet on telling coins apart by who is on them and what they are worth, aligned to Common Core standard 2.MD.C.8. It prints 5 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Sort the Coins

2.MD.C.8

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Sort each one into the right box.

1.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: worth the same as 2 nickels, worth 1¢, worth 10¢, 10 of them make a dollar

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
2.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: Thomas Jefferson is on the front, worth 10¢, worth the same as 5 pennies, the biggest of the four coins

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
3.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: 20 of them make a dollar, the biggest of the four coins, Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the front, worth 25¢

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
4.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: the biggest of the four coins, Abraham Lincoln is on the front, 10 of them make a dollar, worth the same as 2 nickels

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
5.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: George Washington is on the front, 100 of them make a dollar, the smallest and thinnest coin, worth the same as 2 nickels

PennyNickelDimeQuarter

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Answer key — Sort the Coins

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Penny: worth 1¢; Nickel: —; Dime: worth the same as 2 nickels, worth 10¢, 10 of them make a dollar; Quarter: —
  2. 2.Penny: —; Nickel: Thomas Jefferson is on the front, worth the same as 5 pennies; Dime: worth 10¢; Quarter: the biggest of the four coins
  3. 3.Penny: —; Nickel: 20 of them make a dollar; Dime: Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the front; Quarter: the biggest of the four coins, worth 25¢
  4. 4.Penny: Abraham Lincoln is on the front; Nickel: —; Dime: 10 of them make a dollar, worth the same as 2 nickels; Quarter: the biggest of the four coins
  5. 5.Penny: 100 of them make a dollar; Nickel: —; Dime: the smallest and thinnest coin, worth the same as 2 nickels; Quarter: George Washington is on the front

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 2.MD.C.8 of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.