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Identify the Dime

Students recognize the dime by sight and know its value is ten cents (10¢).

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Identify the Dime

Grade 2 · Money · question 1 of 3

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12 rungs. A star at the top.

The coin shown is worth ___ cents.

Count the coins.

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A dime is the small silver coin.

It is worth ten cents.

Read it: Count on from the biggest

Priya has two quarters, a dime and a penny on a tray. Counting them as four cents is tempting. Start with the biggest coin instead.

  1. Start at the biggest coins: twenty-five, then fifty.
  2. Count on the dime from fifty: sixty.
  3. Count on the penny and name the total: 61c.

Counting four coins as four cents works if they are pennies, but it is wrong the moment a quarter is in the pile.

Two quarters make fifty at a glance, so you start from a number you already trust and only count on the small coins.

The dime adds ten and the penny adds one, so fifty, sixty, sixty-one is the money, not the number of coins.

Count on from the biggest coin; each coin adds what it is worth, not one.

Counting the four coins as four cents, because there are four of them.

A quarter is twenty-five, not one. Start at fifty, then sixty, then sixty-one.

A quarter is 25c, a dime 10c, a nickel 5c and a penny 1c. How many cents is 5c + 1c? — 6. Count on from the biggest: 5, 6.

1 dime = 10¢

Today we'll meet a special coin called the dime — it might be smaller than you'd think!

This coin is called a dime. The word DIME is even printed right on the back.

Grade 2 · Spotting and counting our smallest silver coin

The dime is the smallest silver-colored coin we use.

Look closely — its edge has tiny ridges all the way around.

Here's the big question — how much is one dime worth?

A dime is worth ten cents. We write that as ten with a little cent sign.

That means one dime is the same as ten pennies all together.

Small, silver, ridged edge, and it says DIME — one dime equals ten cents!

Now you try. Count these coins in cents. How much in cents?

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