It's time to crack open that piggy bank and see what's inside. First, count up the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, identifying what fraction of them are dimes. Then calculate the total value of the coins, writing another fraction for the value of the dimes. A challenging problem that requires students to look at a single group of objects in two very different ways.

Concepts

comparing fractions, fractions, counting money, equivalent fractions, fractions reducing, parts of a whole, simplest terms, simplifying

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Additional Tags

counting money, parts of a whole, identifying fractions, comparing fractions, fractions with money, equivalent fractions, reducing fractions, simplest form, math

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Pros

• Context deepens an understanding of fractions as parts of a whole
• Key information clearly presented using bullet points
• Numbers chosen to allow fractions to be written in simplest form

Cons

• Requires prior knowledge about value of US currency

Common Core

4.NF.A.1 4.NF.A.2 MP4 MP7