Kindergarten Mathematics
K.7
Strand: Measurement and Geometry
The student will recognize the attributes of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and identify the number of pennies equivalent to a
nickel, a dime, and a quarter.
Understanding the Standard
Involvement in varied activities such as physically manipulating coins and making comparisons
about their sizes, colors, and values are prerequisites to the skills of coin recognition and valuation.
Students need experiences counting collections of pennies. This can promote one-to-one
correspondence, as a penny is worth one cent.
Students need experiences to develop the concept that a nickel has a value of five cents (which is
the same as five pennies), that a dime has a value of 10 cents (which is the same as ten pennies),
and a quarter has a value of 25 cents (which is the same as twenty-five pennies), even though each
coin (nickel, dime, quarter) is only one object.
VDOE Mathematics Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework 2016: Kindergarten
Essential Knowledge and Skills
The student will use problem solving, mathematical
communication, mathematical reasoning, connections, and
representations to
Describe the attributes (e.g., color, relative size) of a penny,
nickel, dime, and quarter.
Identify a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.
Identify the number of pennies equivalent to a nickel, a dime,
and a quarter (i.e., a nickel has the same value as five
pennies).
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