Teaching Tip: Coin Denominations Quiz
Your students probably use coins every day. But do they know whose portrait is currently on each coin denomination? Give your students the following quiz.
- Whose portrait is on the penny? (Abraham Lincoln)
- Whose portrait is on the nickel? (Thomas Jefferson)
- Whose portrait is on the dime? (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Whose portrait is on the quarter? (George Washington)
- Whose portrait is on the half dollar? (John F. Kennedy)
- Whose portrait is on the Native American series of the dollar? (Sacagawea)
- George Washington also appears on which paper denomination? (one dollar bill)
- Thomas Jefferson also appears on which paper denomination? (two dollar bill)
- Abraham Lincoln also appears on which paper denomination? (five dollar bill)
