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Dimes and Pennies

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Help your fourth graders make cents out of fractions and decimals with this short word problem. After learning that dimes are one-tenth and pennies one-hundredth of a dollar, students write a fraction and decimal for a given number of coins. Use this resource to supplement your teaching of decimal place value using fractions.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts
decimal place value, equivalent fractions, fractions unlike denominators, fractions
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Additional Tags
decimals & fractions, decimals with money, fractions with money, adding fractions with different denominators, adding fractions with unlike denominators, equivalent fractions, tenths and hundredths, decimal place value, math
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Pros
  • Money naturally lends itself to teaching about fractions and decimals
  • Context allows for multiple approaches to solving the problem
Cons
  • Requires previous knowledge about writing decimals
  • Worksheet only includes a single problem
Common Core
4.NF.C.5 4.NF.C.6 MP4 MP7