New Zealand Money Worksheets | Making Amounts with NZ Coins and Notes

Do your students recognise New Zealand currency but struggle to choose the correct combination of coins and notes to make an amount?

These New Zealand money worksheets give children focused practice combining different denominations. Each problem presents a target amount and a selection of coins or notes. Students must circle only the money needed to make the total while ignoring the extra currency.

This requires more thought than simply counting everything shown and helps children develop flexible, practical money skills.

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

• Four printable New Zealand money worksheets

• Eight problems on each worksheet

• 32 problems altogether

• Target amounts from 90c to $12.50

• New Zealand coins and $5 and $10 notes

• Clear photographic currency images

• Multiple denominations and distractor coins

SKILLS PRACTISED

• Recognising New Zealand coins and notes

• Counting mixed collections of money

• Combining denominations

• Making a specified monetary amount

• Adding dollars and cents

• Reading decimal money notation

• Selecting relevant information

• Developing flexible number strategies

HOW TO USE

For each problem, students look at the target amount and examine the available currency. They circle the combination of coins and notes that makes exactly that amount.

The worksheets are ideal for:

• Independent maths practice

• New Zealand money units

• Montessori follow-up work

• Maths centres

• Small-group lessons

• Homework

• Revision

• Informal assessment

Students can also use real or play money alongside the worksheets to build each amount before recording their answer.

Created by a Montessori and state-trained New Zealand teacher, this resource provides purposeful practice with familiar currency while developing confidence, accuracy and everyday financial literacy.

4 pages - PDF

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