My Book of Money Dollars & Cents

(58 customer reviews)

This sequel to My First Book of Money helps children make the difficult transition between cents and dollars. By first reviewing the names and values of coins, and then slowly beginning to practice dollars and the dollar-based structure, this workbook will make a challenging mathematical concept seem easy.

8 ¼ × 11 ⅔ inches. paperback. 80 pages. full color. US $7.95 / C $8.95

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This sequel to My First Book of Money helps children make the difficult transition between cents and dollars. By first reviewing the names and values of coins, and then slowly beginning to practice dollars and the dollar-based structure, this workbook will make a challenging mathematical concept seem easy.

8 ¼ × 11 ⅔ inches. paperback. 80 pages. full color. US $7.95 / C $8.95

Additional information

ISBN

1933241438

Grade

1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Series

Basic Workbooks

Age

6-8

58 reviews for My Book of Money Dollars & Cents

  1. Scarlett Smith

    Problem: coins too smallLike most Kumon books, this is a good one, the only problem with it is that coins are not the actual size on the page, which, if you use real coins to present and other books that keep the real size of coins real on the page, is confusing even to ME, let alone my six year old.I recommend using this book separately from all other instruction to avoid confusion, if you want to use it at all. I still want to use it since it’s good step-by-step practice for my son. There’s no reason they couldn’t use real or close-to-real size though. All other books do and they don’t go bankrupt on paper used.Another consideration: some people don’t like the fact that 50-cent coins are used here. I like it. It allows my son to practice that 50 cents plus 50 cents is 100 cents, which I’m turn is a dollar.There’s a book of counting coins by Kumon that you should start with before purchasing this one. It probably pops up down on the product page in recommendations. Unless your child really knows how to count coins well, which by the way is way more complex a task than I realized (you need to be able to count by fives and tens fluently, and add on the fly)—unless your kid does that, this book isn’t for you. Start with the one on counting coins first.Please mark this review as helpful if it was helpful to you so others can find it.

  2. Profile

    Incremental, intuitive, and delivers fast results.Finally! An intuitive and incremental method for teaching kids to counts coins. These books are fantastic. I recommend a 20-minute timer, which allows my kids to work at their own pace and accomplish as much as they wish. No that it’s homeschool for the foreseeable future/year Kumon has been a lifesaver! My 6 & 7 year old kids went from struggling in school to getting caught up in a 1 month of consistent daily Kumon. By May they’ll be ready to move onto the next grade of Kumon books, which we plan on continuing all summer. We’ve tried public and elite private schooling….Kumon has been the only thing that’s delivered results. We’ve decided school is a waste of time & money. I’m utilizing these Kumon workbooks to create a homeschool curriculum.

  3. Portland Mom

    Too much tracing…I generally love Kumon books. They’re progressive, logical and give lots of practice. This book logically builds on the Counting Coins book. It starts out with a quick review of coins and a couple a pages of practice. Then it introduces the $1 or 100 cents with sufficient support of this concept. And sufficient support of writing dollar and cent amounts (ie 1.40 as oppose to $1 and 40 cents)It after this that I have got a little frustrated. From lessons 18-31, the student is given half the answers to the problems shown and is suppose to trace it rather than having to count it out. The directions say count the money then trace the amount. I guess they assume the child cannot write numbers properly. However, I feel the goal should be the ability to count the money correctly. I think giving 2-3 examples would be sufficient rather than a whole page of tracing. My child tends to speed through the tracing and pass on the counting since he doesn’t have to really think about the answer. I would rather have him spending time practicing the counting.It’s still a good book. Lessons 32-19 allow for counting practice. Although some of the pages are a predictable pattern. If you have a pretty bright child, she will figure it out fast. So only 3 stars!!

  4. Susan K. Schoonover

    Another Good Kumon Math BookThough these books are designed for use with very young children I have found success using them with high school students who have very high needs. The money books are especially good since the pictures of money are realistic (not always the case with some math workbooks) reproduce well with almost any copier and the worksheets alternate between using the fronts and backs of the coins and one dollar bills (dollar bills are as high as this book goes) so students become familiar with both sides. The workbooks are sequential and provide lots of practice before moving on to a new skill or concept. My one regret about this book is by the end of the book there is quite a bit of emphasis on the fifty cent coin which is so seldom used today and which I tend to not to even teach to my students who just need the very basic concepts.

  5. Heather Johnson

    and then the rest of the workbook slowly introduces dollars and the dollar-based structure to make the challenging mathematicalAfter my daughter mastered the coins under $1, I moved on to My Book of Money: Dollars and Cents from Kumon with her. The workbook helps young learners make the difficult transition between cents and dollars. The beginning reviews the names and values of coins, and then the rest of the workbook slowly introduces dollars and the dollar-based structure to make the challenging mathematical concept seem easy. As with the other Kumon workbooks that I have used with my daughter, I appreciate the slower pace.

  6. D. R. Jump

    Step by Step, Work AloneI love this book! My kids have struggled with learning money in their regular curriculum (which doesn’t review it enough). This book walks them through step-by-step, from 1 penny up, so that your kid can basically teach themselves. It’s so convenient… and as a homeschooling mom, that’s what I love!

  7. Mónica Andrea Puentes Rivera

    Good.Good.

  8. Hilary Hill

    Great workbook for learning moneyMy daughter just finished 2nd grade and her teacher said she needed a bit of a review this summer on money before she went back to school for 3rd grade. I decided to try this money Kumon book and I’m so glad I did. It slowly and gently introduces and reinforces money concepts, starting with coins and then going to dollars. My daughter has learned a lot in just a couple weeks of use. Highly recommended. Only thing is I wish the pages were easier to tear out…

  9. LLK

    Good bookHelped my son a lot

  10. Mo

    Not worth itI bought this book for my daughter to introduce money concept. This book has lots of tracing included instead it should have focused on money concepts. However, this book can be used as supplement resource while teaching dollar and cents to kindergarten kids.

  11. Dave

    This book is pretty good like the rest of the Kumon seriesThis book is pretty good like the rest of the Kumon series. My daughter is in kindergarten and seems to be getting a pretty good grasp of adding up coins. My main gripe with this book is that it includes 50-cent coins which are pretty rare nowadays. Second, the images of the coins are a bit small, so you have to look closely when trying to solve the problems.

  12. Sandra

    Great for beginners to learn about coins and dollars!Love all Kumon workbooks. This is a great beginners book to help identify coins and dollars. Great repetitiveness that really help strength my kids learning!

  13. AnneMarie

    Good. Easy. Wished it had more differing pages. Too repetitive.First grader finished it in like 2 weeks. Great for learning money. Too easy? Depends on your kid so self evaluate – too repetitive for my taste. Wished it had more varying problems

  14. Amazon Customer

    Great for learning and recognizing how to count moneyMy daughter is now learning how to count money. She is recognizing the difference between a dime and a quarter. And adding the money is getting easier for her.Like Kumon because it has actual pictures of what the money looks like. Nice

  15. thebabychill

    I have been happy with all of my Kumon purchasesI have been happy with all of my Kumon purchases! They are great supplemental guides or summer bridge books. They are fun and help to break down concepts to more manageable bites of understanding. I highly recommend for homeschoolers or for mom’s who simply want to supplement their children’s normal school curriculum.

  16. Rainer J Fries

    and used the space for more interesting concepts like higher value dollar billsA large fraction of the exercises have prefilled answers. The students presumably have to trace those numbers to learn the concepts, but for kids age 6-8 (for which the book is recommended) this seems absurd. They could have cut those exercises but for a few, and used the space for more interesting concepts like higher value dollar bills. The remaining exercises are typical for this Kumon series, i.e. rather rote and repetitive. While that can work for other topics it seems overdone here. One of the weakest books of this generally likeable series.

  17. R. Villanueva

    Acceptable Condition MisleadingThe work book did not have superficial damages, it was partially filled out. I had to go through all the pages and erase the answers before I could let my son get started.

  18. J. Gacioch

    good work bookThis is great work book for my 2nd grade son. He was struggling with money and this has been helping him understand a little better. The only problem is he is almost out of pages to work on.

  19. Amazon Customer

    good resource for teaching the basicsI am using this for my 2nd grade daughter. The concepts are very elementary for her, but a good guide to see what she has learned and retained up to this point.

  20. Vanquish Self Defense Systems

    It’s a little easy for him but he enjoys itMy almost 7 year old loves this book. It’s a little easy for him but he enjoys it.

  21. CrunchyMama

    Four StarsGood for extra practice or as its own curriculum.

  22. C. Waters

    great product! use for homeschoolingThese books are great. The way each lesson is just enough to not make a child get bored or hate it really makes it unique from other books like this. My kids don’t even realize how much they are learning. It’s so easy to learn with these books. Before you know it, they’ve mastered a new concept.

  23. L C

    Money couldn’t be easier to learnEasy to useMakes money funVery light math work on the whole subjectTurns money into common sense/centsHaha

  24. george c. luckette

    Dollar and centsThis series of books are some of the best that I have ever worked with in teaching students the basics of learning in any field,if you need to pre-teach, teach or refresh,this is the series to choose

  25. coolbrz

    … to work on over summer and my kids actually like them. They do a couple pages a dayWe bought these to work on over summer and my kids actually like them. They do a couple pages a day. I would highly recommend them!

  26. mesopotamiancrow

    okaymy son has problems with money concept and this workbook is okay because we do it everyday, but it has a pattern and he knows it! i think he figures out the pattern and not the actual money problems.

  27. Punkie

    Save Your MoneyI did not care for this workbook at all. I honestly do not know what the big deal about Kumon is. This book has .50 pieces included in the majority of the problems which confuses my kids. We barely even see them ina real world application so why include them in a workbook? If I could give this book a negative review as in a minus 5 stars I would. It was not worth the money.

  28. charityadair

    great book!Very well done and great for children who are just starting to work with money. I am so thankful for Kumon, they have created fantastic educational books for children, we have never been disappointed!

  29. Kmatt17

    More for a 1st graderThis book is too easy for my 2nd going into 3rd grader. It is more for a 1st grader that is not familiar with money. I have to skip around to find pages that are more on her level.

  30. Brocollimommy

    GreatMy 6 yr old loves this workbook. He usually requires help to start any workbook but he has completed this one all on his own!

  31. Anita L Johnson

    WiseshoperEasy to use and understand

  32. Stephanie Hutchison

    Great!I have purchased other educational workbook from Kumon Publishing in the past. Just like the other books…this one does not disappoint.

  33. Jo W.

    giftgift

  34. Yelizaveta

    Teaching toolWe are fans of Kumon workbooks. This is just another one of their wonderful products. Fun and challenging for children.

  35. Detective Vien

    Not good at all!Pictures are so small and not very clear. It is so hard to see even for an adult. Please take this item back!

  36. Edith L. Kerney

    Five StarsThis book was a great help for my grandchildren . Counting money was fun!!

  37. Juanita Mcmullan

    Simple and easy.Grandson was 5 when we got this book, the instructions were easy, and he learned quickly. Glad we bought it.

  38. Nafi

    Five StarsGood.

  39. Amazon Customer

    Five StarsGreat Product!

  40. Mike DG

    Check your book carefully.I did not like that my book was missing the first seven seven lessons. I did not like that my book cover was ripped. I did not like that the binding was very damaged.

  41. artraya daniels

    Kids learned a lotLove it.

  42. Ed

    Five StarsGreat Book !!!!!

  43. kaychan

    Five StarsMust have book for young kids

  44. Impulse Buyer

    Five StarsLove these Kumon books!!!

  45. Rosemary

    Five StarsMy son loves it!

  46. Aymara Reddoch

    Five Starsok

  47. aphadelite

    A lot of tracingThe concept is good. but it demands a lot of tracing focusing on memory not on how. so it it’s good for refreshing the concept if the child knows it.

  48. CJ

    Five Starsgreat book!

  49. Sandra Hails

    Unable to use this book with my daughter as it …Unable to use this book with my daughter as it is American currency. My fault I guess as I did’t realise this from the web advertisement

  50. Ita Foster

    One StarSome diversity in the lessons would have been nice.

  51. K. Chan

    Easy to follow, Fun For Kids to Count CoinsKumon’s Book of Money: Dollars and Cents is a good workbook for kids who know how much each coin is worth, but who needs the practice in counting up the coins. The illustrations are realistic, the summations increase in difficultly gradually, and there are a good amount of practice examples to help solidify a concept. One thing that both hurts and helps students is that there are several boxes that already have solutions in them for the students to trace. While it may hurt some students who don’t bother looking at the coins and just trace the numbers, I found it helped my son because he didn’t focus on the answer and instead counted the coins out loud first – when he looked over and realized the answer was there and it was correct, it gave him instant gratification knowing he got an answer correct without having to check with me.All in all, this was a good workbook and one that my kids enjoyed completing. Recommended.

  52. Jude

    Four Starspretty good but we no longer use 1 cents in canada and have $2 coins

  53. SmartStep

    Build on BasicsI love the Kumon workbooks. They build upon the basics and don’t rush to the next lesson. While my son catches on quickly it is nice to make sure he is putting what he is learning into long term memory. We rarley have to go back over the basics once he has done a Kumon workbook.We did skip the counting coins book as we had already covered the basics of coins and easy addition. This book was a better place for us to start. If your kid is already doing basic math and knows the names and values of coins start here, otherwise counting coins!

  54. Sea & Pine

    Much better than the Counting Coins Book!This book is fun and colorful and is just about counting coins and bills. Children are not asked to practice writing the numbers 1-100 in charts over and over again. Full color throughout. Cheerful drawings compare amounts in coin purses, piggy banks and dozens of other groups.

  55. Brenda Wright

    Would have been nice if there was a book with Canadian currency but …Item was what I ordered. Would have been nice if there was a book with Canadian currency but this book did the job.

  56. Juju bebe

    coins are in US dollar not with CanadianI don’t like it because it only shows the US dollars instead of Canadian.

  57. KERRIE PARK

    Not for Australia.I didn’t know that it was for American.As a result, I had to refund it by paying extra cost.If you can clearly say that this is for US then there won’t be confusion for Australian.

  58. Amazon Customer

    One StarAmerica currancy

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