Grade 3 · The Choosing Year · Week 22

A Share of What You Have

Giving is the third thing money does, and a share of an amount is a fraction with a job.

This game goes with week 22 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

Work out the share

Row a is done for you: one fourth of $12 is $3, so give $3 and keep $9.

Row b: one fourth of $20. You give$ You keep$

Row c: one third of $18. You give$ You keep$

Row d: one half of $10. You give$ You keep$

Row e: one sixth of $24. You give$ You keep$

Which two rows give away the same number of dollars?

The challenge

$5 of $20 is what fraction?$5 of $30 is what fraction?

The same five dollars, two different fractions. A fraction is not an amount until you say of what.

Split it yourself

You have $ . You give .

give

keep

Give $3, keep $9.

How much to give, or whether to at all, is not this page’s business. Working out what a share comes to is.

The workbook: The Choosing Year (free PDF). The teacher guide: answers and watch-fors.