Whats Inside My Piggy Bank

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Whats Inside My Piggy Bank?
by Alison Gartner, Jan Rice, Mary Velez and
Louise Gilbert
PRIME Workshop 2006
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• The Penny
• The coin with the smallest value is a penny,
• which is worth one cent, or 1.
• The symbol "" means "cent".  

Here are pictures of the front (head) and back
(tail) of a penny
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Who am I?
I am Abraham Lincoln. My picture is on the front
of the penny.
A picture of the Lincoln Memorial is on the back
of the penny. It is located in Washington, D.C.
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• The Nickel
• The next coin in value is the nickel, which is
  worth five cents, or 5.
• The symbol "" means "cent".  

Here are pictures of the front (head) and back
(tail) of a nickel
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Who am I?
I am Thomas Jefferson. I was the 3rd President
of the United States. My picture is on the front
of the nickel.
A picture of Monticello is on the back of the
nickel. It was Thomas Jeffersons home. It is
located just outside Washington, D.C.
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• The Dime
• Another coin is a dime, which is worth ten cents,
  or 10.
• The symbol "" means "cent".  

Here are pictures of the front (head) and back
(tail) of a dime
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Who am I?
I am Franklin D. Roosevelt. I was the 32nd
President of the United States. My picture is on
the front of the dime.
The back of the dime pictures a torch with an
olive branch to the left and an oak branch to the
right.
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• The Quarter
• The last coin is a quarter, which is worth
  twenty-five cents, or 25.
• The symbol "" means "cent".  

Here are pictures of the front (head) and back
(tail) of a quarter
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Who am I?
I am George Washington. I was the 1st President
of the United States. My picture is on the front
of the quarter.
A picture of a bald eagle is on the back of the
quarter. The bald eagle is the symbol of the
United States of America.
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Whats different?

• The 50 State Quarters Program
• The design on the tails side of the United States
  quarter will change five times each year for a
  ten-year period, beginning in January 1999.
• States are honored in the order in which they
  were admitted to the Union. Each state will
  design its own back to the quarter.
• The United States mint will stop production of
  the Eagle quarter until The 50 State Quarters
  Program ends in 2008.

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Heres an activity to try!

• Cents of Color
• Open the activity site.
• Choose a state to see its design for the tails
  side of the quarter.
• Color it using the color palette.
• Print if you would like.

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Funny MoneyTo the tune of "The Hokey Pokey"

• Put a penny in.
• Put a penny out.
• Put a penny in,
• And shake it all about!
• Do the Funny Money andShake it upside down.
• One cent is what comes out!

Put a nickel in. Put a nickel out. Put a nickel
in, And shake it all about! Do the Funny Money
andShake it upside down. Five cents is what
comes out!
Put a dime in. Put a dime out. Put a dime in, And
shake it all about! Do the Funny Money
andShake it upside down. Ten cents is what comes
out!
Put a quarter in. Put a quarter out. Put a
quarter in, And shake it all about! Do the Funny
Money andShake it upside down. Twenty-five
cents is what comes out!
Try it with all the coins!
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Fun Fact!

• No one invented the piggy bank. The banks
  origin
• arrives out of language. In old English (15th
  century),
• there was a word pygg which referred to a type
  of orange
• clay. People made all kinds of useful objects
  out of clay,
• including dishes and jars to hold spare change.
  Around the 18th
• century, the word pygg now sounded the same as
  the word
• for the animal pig. An unknown person thought
  to shape a
• pygg jar to look just like a real pig.

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Sources

• Learning About Coins
• http//www.coe.uh.edu/archive/math/math_lesso
  ns/mathles3/index.htm
• Learning to Use Money
• http//arcytech.org/java/money
• The 50 State Coins Program
• http//www,usmint.give_program/index.cfm?actio
  nfactsheet
• Piggy Banks
• http//inventors.about.com/library/inventors/b
  lpiggybank.htm