Money Math
Money Math Worksheets and Lesson Plans for Teachers
Worksheets and lesson plans for teaching real-world money math — from counting coins to calculating interest, discounts, and sales tax. Grades K–12.
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This section brings together MoneyInstructor money math worksheets and generators for teaching counting money, coin combinations, place values, fractions, percentages, and consumer money math — sales tax, discounts, and cost comparison. Grades K–12.
Featured Resources
Money math resources for every grade level
A selection of worksheets and generators from the MoneyInstructor money math library — from counting coins in early grades to fractions and percentages in middle school.
Counting Money & Coins
Counting Money
A teacher’s guide to counting coins, bills, and mixed amounts — with a clear teaching sequence and a printable worksheet generator.
Grades K–4 · Lesson + Worksheets · Free to Read
Coin Identification Worksheet Generator
Students identify coins by name and value — penny, nickel, dime, and quarter — with printable practice worksheets.
Grades K–2 · Worksheet Generator · Member Resource
Counting Coins Worksheet Generator
Students practice identifying and counting sets of mixed coins — adding coin values to reach a total amount.
Grades K–3 · Worksheet Generator · Member Resource
Making Change
The count-up and subtraction methods for giving correct change, plus a classroom-store activity and a printable worksheet generator.
Grades 2–5 · Lesson + Worksheets · Free to Read
Coin Combinations Worksheet
Worksheets covering multiple ways to make the same amount using different coin combinations — building flexible money-counting skills.
Grades 1–4 · Worksheet Generator · Member Resource
Place Values with Money
Students practice identifying place values in dollar amounts — ones, tens, and hundreds — and writing amounts in standard form.
Grades 2–5 · Worksheet Generator · Member Resource
Money Math Worksheet Generator
An interactive generator for money arithmetic practice — counting money, adding and subtracting dollar amounts across multiple difficulty levels.
Grades 1–6 · Worksheet Generator · Member ResourceMath Operations with Money
Money Fractions Worksheet Generator
Students practice writing fractions from coin amounts, simplifying money fractions, and connecting fraction, decimal, and percent representations.
Grades 4–8 · Worksheet Generator · Member Resource
Money Percentages Worksheet Generator
Students calculate percentages of dollar amounts — foundational practice for sales tax, discounts, and restaurant tips across customizable word problems.
Grades 5–9 · Worksheet Generator · Member ResourceConsumer Money Math
Calculating Sales Tax
Students calculate sales tax on a purchase, add tax to a base price, and find the final total — using percent math in a real-world checkout context.
Grades 5–8 · Lesson + Worksheets · Free Lesson
Calculating Discounts
A six-lesson cluster on discount math — finding dollar savings, percent off, sale prices, and working backward to the original price.
Grades 5–8 · Lesson Cluster · Free Lessons
Cost Comparison and Unit Pricing
Students compare two products at different sizes and prices, reduce each to a unit price, and decide which is the better deal — a daily-use shopping skill.
Grades 6–9 · Lesson + Worksheets · Free Lesson
Calculating Interest
Students apply the I = P × R × T formula to find interest earned or owed — worksheet practice for real-world saving and borrowing math.
Grades 6–9 · Lesson Plan + Worksheets · Free Lesson
Estimating Sums of Money
Students round money amounts to the nearest dollar and estimate totals — a practical mental-math skill for shopping and budget checking.
Grades 3–5 · Lesson Plan + Worksheets · Free Lesson
Sales Commissions
How earning by commission works — the three compensation models (straight, base plus, draw against) and the percentage math behind every commission paycheck.
Grades 7+ · Lesson + Worksheet · Free LessonAdditional MoneyInstructor money math worksheets, lesson plans, and activities — including change-making, ratio and proportion, down-payment math, decimal multiplication, and money addition and subtraction — are still available in the classic resource library while we continue modernizing the site.
Grade Level Guide
Money math resources by grade level
Identifying coins, counting money, making change, and comparing money amounts using basic number sense.
Adding and subtracting money, estimating costs, dividing money amounts, and introductory fractions with money.
Percentages, sales tax, discounts, and consumer math applications — connecting math operations to real purchases.
Interest calculations, markups, commissions, cost comparison, and advanced consumer math with real-world scenarios.
These resources are part of the full MoneyInstructor library
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