Different coins

Different coins

Pencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
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This task is about making the same amount of money in different ways.
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Imagine you are going to buy a drink for $1.40.
You will be given some coins to help you work out different ways to make $1.40.

Question 1Change answer

Write down three different ways $1.40 could be made using the coins you are given.
     1. 
     2.  
     3. 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pen and paper or online (with NO auto marking).  Equipment is required.
 
Equipment:
Plastic coins, two of each denomination: 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, and $2.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
money, combinations, addition, multiplication
Description of task: 
In this practical task, students use plastic coins to work out three different ways to make the same amount of money.
Curriculum Links: 

This resource can help to identify students' ability to use basic facts and knowledge of place value and partitioning whole numbers to solve addition problems.

Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Additive thinking, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
   
3 marks
or
2 marks
or
1 mark		 Shows three different combinations.

Shows two different combinations.

Shows one way of making $1.40.

All possible combinations:

$1              20 c            20 c

$1              20 c            10 c            10 c

$1              10 c            10 c            10 c           10 c

50 c            50 c            20 c           20 c

50 c            50 c            20 c            10 c          10 c

50 c            50 c            10 c            10 c          10 c           10 c

NOTE:  This could be done individually with the teacher recording the responses or as a group task with students writing down their answers.

EXTENSION: Get the students to find all the different ways of making $1.40.