Counting Money Jeopardy

Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters in a counting-money review for early grades. Copy the board at no cost and let kids answer on phone buzzers.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Name That Coin

$200
This copper-colored coin is worth one cent.
What is a penny?
$400
This coin is worth five cents.
What is a nickel?
$600
This small coin is worth ten cents, even though it is smaller than a nickel.
What is a dime?
$800
This coin is worth 25 cents.
What is a quarter?
$1,000
This large coin is worth 50 cents.
What is a half-dollar?

How Much Is It Worth

$200
A nickel and a penny together are worth this much.
What is 6 cents?
$400
A dime and a penny together are worth this much.
What is 11 cents?
$600
A quarter and a nickel together are worth this much.
What is 30 cents?
$800
Two quarters together are worth this much.
What is 50 cents?
$1,000
A one-dollar bill is worth this many cents.
What is 100 cents?

Counting Coins

$200
Two dimes add up to this much.
What is 20 cents?
$400
One dime and three pennies add up to this much.
What is 13 cents?
$600
One quarter and one dime add up to this much.
What is 35 cents?
$800
Two quarters, one nickel and two pennies add up to this much.
What is 57 cents?
$1,000
Three quarters, one dime and three pennies add up to this much.
What is 88 cents?

Equal Amounts

$200
It takes this many quarters to make one dollar.
What is 4?
$400
It takes this many pennies to make one dime.
What is 10?
$600
It takes this many nickels to make one dime.
What is 2?
$800
It takes this many nickels to make one dollar.
What is 20?
$1,000
Three dimes are worth the same as this many nickels.
What is 6?

Dollars and Cents

$200
This symbol goes in front of a number to show dollars.
What is the dollar sign?
$400
This symbol, a letter c with a line through it, goes after a number to show cents.
What is the cent sign?
$600
The amount $3.60 is three dollars and this many cents.
What is 60 cents?
$800
This is how you write 125 cents using a dollar sign and a decimal point.
What is $1.25?
$1,000
Two one-dollar bills and three dimes make this amount.
What is $2.30?

At the Store

$200
You have 10 cents and buy a sticker for 6 cents, so you have this much left.
What is 4 cents?
$400
A pencil costs 30 cents and an eraser costs 15 cents, so together they cost this much.
What is 45 cents?
$600
You pay one dollar for a juice that costs 60 cents, so your change is this much.
What is 40 cents?
$800
Stickers cost 5 cents each, so three stickers cost this much.
What is 15 cents?
$1,000
You have 75 cents and buy an apple for 48 cents, so you have this much left.
What is 27 cents?

Final Jeopardy — Coin Trade

A quarter is worth the same amount of money as this many nickels.

What is five?

How to run this board

This board builds money skills one step at a time: naming coins and their values, telling apart coins that look alike, counting a small handful of mixed coins, trading coins for equal amounts, and solving store-style word problems with friendly prices.

Plastic or real coins on each team's table make this much easier for young students. Let teams count out the amount before they buzz, and ask the winning team to show their coins under a document camera so the whole class sees the counting.

Skip the higher-value clues in the At the Store column for first graders; they can come back to them later in the year.

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