Counting Coins: How Much Is in Each Purse?

This Grade 1 counting coins worksheet opens six little purses, each holding a handful of familiar coins. The child counts up the value of the coins in every purse — ideally starting from the biggest coin and counting on from there — and writes the total amount in the box beside it. Six purses, six totals, and plenty of honest counting in between.

Money is the friendliest real-world use of number a first grader knows. Counting mixed coins is genuinely demanding: the child must recognize each coin, recall its value, and switch skip-counting gears mid-stream — tens, then fives, then ones. That flexible counting is superb number-sense exercise, and because the coins are the very ones children see in real life, the skill transfers straight to piggy banks, allowances, and pretend shops at home. Writing each total in the box also gives early practice in recording money amounts correctly, a small habit with a long life.

Print the PDF free and, if you can, set a few real coins next to the page — matching pictures to metal makes the values stick faster. Mental math within 20 strengthens the adding that money totals depend on, and picture word problems give those coin-counting skills little stories to live in.