Hello again!
Here is a new problem that you may use in your classrooms as a way to engage and have fun in your math classroom. Please feel free to post any feedback you receive from your learners or any interesting classroom outcomes that happen when you do use this problem in your classrooms. Here is the problem:
John returned some bottles to the store. He received $1.60 in quarters, dimes, and nickels. Use these clues to determine the number of each kind of coin. There are more dimes than nickels. There is an even number of quarters. There are as many quarters and nickels together as there are dimes.
Have fun and let's talk math!
Brooke Istas
Subject Matter Expert
Math and Numeracy
P.S. Let's also identify the Standards that are used and the Mathematical Practices from the College and Career Readiness Standards. I will start...
One standard that this problem addresses is - Understand and Apply properties of operations and the relationshp between addition and subtraction, page 52 Level A
One mathematical practice that this problem utilizes - MP. 6 - Attend to precision.
Comments
Brooke,
I would also use the Mathematical Practices- MP.4: Model with mathematics.
Students could use lots of methods to model the solution to this problem including using actual money.
Aaron