Making change worksheets

By grade

• 2nd Grade Right on level
• 3rd Grade A step harder

What students need to know

Start at the cost and count up to the money paid. What you count along the way is the change.

This skill runs from 2nd grade through 3rd grade. Pick a grade above for level-matched sentences, teaching notes, and worksheets.

Making change across the grades

2nd grade

Making change worksheets for second grade print a cost and the money paid (Cost: 63¢, Paid: $1.00) with a line for the change. Your child counts up with coins: pennies to a friendly number, then dimes and quarters up to the dollar.

3rd grade

Third grade making change worksheets step up to dollars-and-cents prices: Cost: $3.45, Paid: $5.00, with a line for the change. Your child counts up through the coins to the next dollar, then whole dollars to the amount paid, writing answers like $1.55.