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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 5¢, worth 1¢, worth 10¢, 20 of them make a dollar

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
2.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: worth 5¢, worth 10¢, Abraham Lincoln is on the front, Thomas Jefferson is on the front

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
3.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: the biggest of the four coins, Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the front, 10 of them make a dollar, the only copper-colored coin

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
4.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: worth 25¢, worth the same as 5 pennies, worth 1¢, worth 5¢

PennyNickelDimeQuarter
5.Sort each one into the right box.

Sort: the biggest of the four coins, 4 of them make a dollar, worth 1¢, worth the same as 5 pennies

PennyNickelDimeQuarter

LessonPrint · 2.MD.C.8 · Set 5 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Sort the Coins

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Penny: worth 1¢; Nickel: worth 5¢, 20 of them make a dollar; Dime: worth 10¢; Quarter: —
  2. 2.Penny: Abraham Lincoln is on the front; Nickel: worth 5¢, Thomas Jefferson is on the front; Dime: worth 10¢; Quarter: —
  3. 3.Penny: the only copper-colored coin; Nickel: —; Dime: Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the front, 10 of them make a dollar; Quarter: the biggest of the four coins
  4. 4.Penny: worth 1¢; Nickel: worth the same as 5 pennies, worth 5¢; Dime: —; Quarter: worth 25¢
  5. 5.Penny: worth 1¢; Nickel: worth the same as 5 pennies; Dime: —; Quarter: the biggest of the four coins, 4 of them make a dollar

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