What this worksheet practices
Counting money combines skip counting, place value, and careful organization. Students need to know each coin value, but they also need a strategy for counting mixed coins. Starting with the largest value first usually keeps the total easier to track.
The lemonade stand setting gives students repeated practice sorting money by value before counting. Quarters invite counting by 25s, dimes by 10s, and nickels by 5s, so students connect money totals back to skip-counting strategies they already know.
Encourage children to write a running total: 25, 35, 45, 50, 51. That habit prevents losing count when several denominations appear together. The answer key uses cents or dollar notation depending on the total.
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