Driving Question: How can we, as mathematicians, figure out
Problem: Farmer Fred Farmer Fred’s fields are worth twelve hundred dollars total. The fields are formed with the same properties as your pattern blocks. Each field’s value is based on its size. What fraction of the total value is each field worth? How much is each field worth? Show and explain all of your mathematical thinking.
Key Standards:
Mathematical Practices
Problem: Farmer Fred Farmer Fred’s fields are worth twelve hundred dollars total. The fields are formed with the same properties as your pattern blocks. Each field’s value is based on its size. What fraction of the total value is each field worth? How much is each field worth? Show and explain all of your mathematical thinking.
Key Standards:
Mathematical Practices
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.Build fractions from unit fractions.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.A
Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.C
Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators, e.g., by replacing each mixed number with an equivalent fraction, and/or by using properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.D
Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.4
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction by a whole number.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.4.C
Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.