Haven't signed into your Scholastic account before?
Teachers, not yet a subscriber?
Subscribers receive access to the website and print magazine.
You are being redirecting to Scholastic's authentication page...
Announcements & Tutorials
Renew Now, Pay Later
Sharing Google Activities
2 min.
Setting Up Student View
Exploring Your Issue
Using Text to Speech
Join Our Facebook Group!
1 min.
Subscriber Only Resources
Access this article and hundreds more like it with a subscription to Scholastic Math magazine.
STANDARDS
CCSS: 6.SP.B.5.C
TEKS: 6.12C, 6.12D
Article Options
Presentation View
The New Quarters
NASA (Ride); Jessica Antola/Contour by Getty Images (Angelou)
Sally Ride (left); Maya Angelou (right)
United States Mint
Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, and Helen Keller are the only three women to ever appear on American coins in circulation. But this will soon change. Over the next four years, the U.S. Mint plans to release 20 new quarter designs for the American Women Quarters Program.
The new quarters will celebrate pioneering American women. The first two are astronaut Sally Ride and poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. Angelou is best known for her 1969 autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Imagery from this work is featured in the early design of her quarter.
Many of the candidates are still being finalized. Who would you like to see on a quarter?
Since 1999, the U.S. Mint has regularly released new quarter designs. There are 50 in the U.S. states series, 56 in the America the Beautiful series, 6 in the Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories series, and 20 in the American women series. What’s the mean number of designs? Record your work and answer on our Numbers in the News answer sheet.