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.

Set 3 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Sort the Coins

2.MD.C.8

NameDate

Sort each one into the right box.

1.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: worth the same as 2 nickels, Thomas Jefferson is on the front, the only copper-colored coin, worth the same as 5 pennies

PennyNickelDimeQuarter

2.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: worth 10¢, worth the same as 5 pennies, worth 1¢, the biggest of the four coins

PennyNickelDimeQuarter

3.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: worth 25¢, 100 of them make a dollar, worth the same as 5 nickels, the only copper-colored coin

PennyNickelDimeQuarter

4.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: the smallest and thinnest coin, worth the same as 5 pennies, Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the front, 4 of them make a dollar

PennyNickelDimeQuarter

5.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: worth 1¢, worth 5¢, Thomas Jefferson is on the front, Abraham Lincoln is on the front

PennyNickelDimeQuarter

LessonPrint · 2.MD.C.8 · Set 3 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Sort the Coins

Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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