Name ___________________________________________________________ Date _______________________________________

FRACTIONS OF A DAY, PART 1

Fill in the chart with the activities you do on a typical school day. Assign each activity a
different color. The total time for all activities must add up to 24 hours.

Activity Time Spent (to nearest hour) Color

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PREP
In what ways would this table look different if you filled it in for any given
Saturday? Explain.

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FRACTIONS OF A DAY, PART 2

Use the information from the chart on page 48 to make a circle graph. Color a section
of the circle graph to show how much time you spend doing each activity. Fill in each
section with the color you chose for that activity. Label each section of the graph with the
name of the activity and a fraction that describes the amount of time.

How I Spend My Day

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A R E TO SHA R E
PREP
In what ways would this graph look different if you based it on how you might
spend a day when you’re sick? Explain on the back of this page.

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FUNNY MONEY

You will need the coins shown in the above picture. Use them to solve these problems.
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11 How many coins are there in the whole set? ___________________________________________________
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2 One-half of the coins in this set have a value of 41¢.
2
2 How many coins is this? ____________________________________________________________________________
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3 Which coins are they? ______________________________________________________________________________

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3 One-quarter of the coins add up to 6¢. How many coins is this? ________________________
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4 Which coins are they? ______________________________________________________________________________

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4 Three-quarters of the coins make 63¢. How many coins is this?
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4
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5 Which coins are they? ______________________________________________________________________________

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5 1
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5 What is the least value that 2 the coins can have? __________________________________________

6 Which coins would be in this half of the set? _________________________________________________

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6 What is the greatest value that 1
2 the coins can have? ______________________________________
7 Which coins would be in this half of the set? _________________________________________________
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77 Kent knows that 14 of a set is less
than 21 of that set. So he’s sure
that 14 of the coins can’t be worth
more than 21 of the same coins.
But Kelly disagrees. Who is right?
Prove it! Explain with a picture
and a caption.

A R E TO SHA R E
PREP
What did you find tricky about these problems? Explain on the back of this page.

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