Different Ways to Pay 25 cents

Different Ways to Pay 25 cents is a Grade 2 money investigation that asks students to build as many coin combinations as possible for one quarter. Working with pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, students organize different combinations that all total 25¢ and then explain some of the arrangements they found. The shared total makes equivalence between coin combinations easy to see.

Use it in small groups when students are learning coin values and need hands-on experience composing the same amount in different ways. Encourage students to prove each combination by skip-counting or adding the coin values. Generate the lesson for Different Ways to Pay 25 cents with a free Find a Math Game account. No credit card; 3 lifetime lesson generations.