The Bumpy Dime

One Penny = One Cent 1¢ A penny is a brownish coin. A penny’s worth one cent. A penny’s barely worth enough to buy a little mint.

A penny isn’t worth a lot, but lots of pennies are. With a million little pennies you could buy a fancy car. I am fancy!

One Nickel = Five Cents 5 ¢ A nickel is slightly larger and a little thicker too. A nickel is worth five pennies, and it’s shiny when it’s new! If a marble costs five cents, then there are two ways you could pay.

You could give the store five pennies or a nickel either way. 5¢ 5¢

A dime is very special even though it’s small and skinny. A dime you see is smaller than the brownish little penny. penny dime

One Dime =Ten Cents 10 ¢ But it has bumps around the edge, bumps all the way around! Scratch them with your thumbnail, and they make a scratchy sound.

A dime is worth ten pennies or two nickels so they say.

If a pencil costs ten cents, then there are four ways you could pay.

10 pennies = 10¢ You could pay with only pennies if you would use exactly ten.

2 nickels = 10 ¢ You could use two shiny nickels. That would do but then,

1 nickel and 5 pennies = 10 ¢ You could also give a nickel and five pennies to the store.

1 dime = 10 ¢ Or, you could use one bumpy dime and not a penny more!