Easy Coin Counting Workstation

Looking for some ideas for teaching counting money? I’ve written before about the strong connection between counting coins and skip counting. That post shares how to modify Count Around the Circle for coin counting and includes downloadable cards you can use with the routine. This activity provides another hands-on way to reinforce those same skills while helping students build confidence and fluency with counting money.

I made a couple of pages of coin cards, showing both the heads and tails sides. Copy several sheets of each on card stock to make a deck of cards. The cards can be used in a workstation for a coin-counting game of War.

To play, each player takes 5 cards and lays them face up.

Players then organize their cards for counting, putting the larger coins first, next largest second, etc. Players count their coins by skip counting, and the player with the greatest value takes all the cards.

Players can record their work in their math journals for added practice and accountability.

Of course, you can easily modify the game by having the students use more or less cards.

Here’s another tip. Be sure to include a hundred chart in the workstation to help kiddos with the skip counting. You can grab your free coin cards here.