Kindergarten Time & Money Drill
Kindergarten time and money drill sheet: 20 problems on reading a clock to the hour, the value of each coin, counting like coins.
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Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Preview — Set A
Solve each problem. Show your work in the space provided.
- 1.
- 2.How many cents is a nickel worth?
- 3.8 nickels =
- 4.
- 5.How many cents is a penny worth?
- 6.6 dimes =
- 7.
- 8.How many cents is a dime worth?
- 9.4 pennies =
- 10.
- 11.How many cents is a quarter worth?
- 12.7 nickels =
- 13.
- 14.10 nickels =
- 15.6 quarters =
- 16.
- 17.10 pennies =
- 18.3 nickels =
- 19.
- 20.4 quarters =
What this worksheet covers
This is a 20-problem drill for kindergarten time and money, printed in black and white with the key on page two. What makes this set particular: seven of the problems are drawn clock faces to read and the quantities are amounts of money, so answers need a dollar or cent sign to be complete. Problems 8 and 14, for instance, are "How many cents is a dime worth?" and "10 nickels". The skill maps to Common Core K.MD.3.
Skills practised
The kindergarten time and money sequence covers reading a clock to the hour, o'clock times, and the value of each coin; this page sits inside it. The skills on the page: reading a clock to the hour, the value of each coin, and counting like coins. Concretely, the sheet tests whether a student can carry money notation through to the answer and read both hands of an analog clock. Nineteen different answers appear across the twenty problems, so a student cannot copy one result down the page.
About the drill format
A drill is straight practice: 20 problems of the same kind, laid out across the page with working space under each — problem 8, "How many cents is a dime worth?" is typical of the whole page. Clock faces and coin sets in a steady run are how the two readings — hands and values — become automatic.
Set A, Set B and Set C
All three sets are produced by the site's deterministic generator from a fixed seed, so they are the same every time the site is built and the answer keys are exact. Where Set A's problem 11 is "How many cents is a quarter worth?", Set B's is "How many cents is a quarter worth?".
How to use this worksheet
Five focused minutes beats twenty distracted ones at kindergarten. Fold this drill in half, do one part of the twenty problems today and the rest tomorrow, and let the student use fingers or counters if they want them. Use the key as a check, not as a grade; none of the twenty problems needs a score attached to be useful.
One mistake to watch for
The hour hand is read as the hour it is nearest to, so 3:50 becomes 4:50. Problem 14 on this kindergarten drill page, "10 nickels", is where to look for it.
The hour hand has moved almost to the next numeral and the student has not learned that it is still in the earlier hour until the minute hand passes twelve.
Shade the space between two numerals on a paper clock and say "it is still three until the long hand gets back to the top".
Other kindergarten time and money formats
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
- Timed Drill — Kindergarten Time & Money Timed Drill, 50 problems
- Missing Number — Kindergarten Time & Money Missing Number, 20 problems
- Mixed Review — Kindergarten Time & Money Mixed Review, 20 problems
A step either side
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
- Grade 1 Time & Money Drill — grade 1, 24 problems
Drill sheets in other kindergarten topics
Print as many copies of this kindergarten time and money drill as you need; Sets A, B and C and their keys are six separate PDFs, all free.