Different dollars

Different dollars

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This task is about working out different ways to make the same amount of money.
Imagine you are going to buy a shirt for $25.
You will be given some notes and coins to help you work out three different ways to make $25.

Question 1Change answer

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Write down three different ways $25 could be made using the notes and coins you are given.
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Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pen and paper or online (with NO auto marking).  Some equipment is required.
 
Equipment:
Play money and coins, two of each denomination $10, $5, $2, and $1 (no $20).
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 and paper notes 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
Multiplicative thinking, sets 3-4
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 $25.

Possible combinations:

  • $10    $10    $5
  • $10    $10    $2    $2    $1
  • $10    $5      $5    $2    $2    $1

EXTENSIONS:  Find as many different ways as you can of making $25, if you had as many of each piece of money as you needed.

ANSWER:  64