Lesson 15 Identify Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes

    • Let’s learn about coins and their values.

Warm-up What Do You Know About …?

What do you know about money?

Activity 1 Show Me the Money

Problem 1

Name the coins in the group and find the value in cents.

Andre’s coins:

7 dimes.
  1. Circle the name of the coins in this collection:

    1. dimes

    2. nickels

    3. pennies

  2. What is the value of the coins?
    Show your thinking using numbers, words, drawings, or equations.

Problem 2

Name the coins in the group and find the value in cents.

Clare’s coins:

 7 pennies.
  1. Circle the name of the coins in this collection:

    1. dimes

    2. nickels

    3. pennies

  2. What is the value of the coins?
    Show your thinking using numbers, words, drawings, or equations.

Problem 3

Name the coins in the group and find the value in cents

Han’s coins:

7 nickels.
  1. Circle the name of the coins in this collection:

    1. dimes

    2. nickels

    3. pennies

  2. What is the value of the coins?
    Show your thinking using numbers, words, drawings, or equations.

Problem 4

Show 2 different ways to make 10¢ using numbers, words, or drawings.

Activity 2 Compare Coins

Name the coins in each group and find the value in cents. Show your thinking using numbers, words, drawings, or equations.

Problem 1

Mai’s coins:

3 nickels, 2 pennies.
  1. Circle the names of the coins in this collection:

    1. dimes

    2. nickels

    3. pennies

  2. What is the value of the coins?

Problem 2

Andre’s coins:

6 pennies. 2 dimes.
  1. Circle the names of the coins in this collection:

    1. dimes

    2. nickels

    3. pennies

  2. What is the value of the coins?

Problem 3

Clare’s coins:

5 dimes, 5 nickels.
  1. Circle the names of the coins in this collection:

    1. dimes

    2. nickels

    3. pennies

  2. What is the value of the coins?

Problem 4

Priya’s coins:

3 dimes. 4 nickels. 6 pennies.
  1. Circle the names of the coins in this collection:

    1. dimes

    2. nickels

    3. pennies

  2. What is the value of the coins?

Problem 5

Compare your coin names and how you found the values with your partner.

Problem 6

Whose group of coins has the least value?

Problem 7

Who has the most coins? Does this group of coins have the greatest value? Explain.

Practice Problem

Problem 1

3 dimes. 2 nickels. 4 pennies.
  1. Which coins are shown in the picture?

  2. What is the value of the coins altogether?