1. The Bumpy Dime

2. 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.

3. 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!

4. 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.

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

6. 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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. 2 nickels = 10 ¢
You could use two shiny nickels. That would do but then,

12. 1 nickel and 5 pennies = 10 ¢
You could also give a nickel and five pennies to the store.

13. 1 dime = 10 ¢
Or, you could use one bumpy dime and not a penny more!