"Making Change: Creative Bill and Coin Combinations" is a worksheet that encourages students to get creative when counting money. Instead of asking students to find a single answer, questions ask students to make change for a certain number. Some questions ask students to make an amount like $33.48 any way they want. Other questions simply ask students to show how to make an amount, leaving it up to them to show how. Subsequent questions ask students to make the same amount in a different way.

Lower grade levels have empty rectangles and circles where students can fill in the amount for the bills and coins they want to use to make the amount. Subsequent boxes, and all the boxes on upper-grade level worksheets, are blank, giving students plenty of room to show their work.

Learning how to count money is a vital skill for students to learn. It also provides students with the ability to practice skip counting and mental math.

Using manipulatives is important in younger grades where students are just beginning to learn how to count money, but you can also give students worksheets where images of bills and coins are used.

Strive to give students a challenging array of questions. You might ask them to find the combination of coins that equal a certain amount, bills that equal a certain amount, or a combination of bills and coins that equal a certain amount. You can challenge students to find as many combinations as they can to make the same amount or use the least amount of bills and coins to make an amount. Playing a game like Monopoly can be a fun way for students to practice counting money, as can opening a classroom store.