Sorting Fractions, money, percentages or decimals
Which would you rather have?
45/100 or ½
¾ or 8/10
8/20 or 2/5
3/5 or 67/100
Sorting Fractions, Benchmarks of 1
Which would you rather have?
5/4 or 9/10
1 ¼ or 9/10
1 ¼ or 19/10
9/4 or 4/9
Sorting Fractions, Benchmarks of ½
Which would you rather have?
½ or 10/20?
½ or 11/20?
12/24 or 11/20
11/24 or 11/20
13/24 or 11/20
Sorting Fractions, Distance to the whole
Which would you rather have?
½ or 2/3
2/3 or ¾
4/5 or ¾
99/100 or 9/10
Sorting Fractions, Using the denominator to compare
Which would you rather have?
3/3 or 3/4
¾ or 3/5
½ or 1/3
Sorting Fractions, Using the numerator to compare
Which would you rather have?
½ or 2/2
3/6 or 4/6
17/19 or 18 /19
17/19 or 36/38
Sorting Fractions
Which would you rather have?
9/10 or 0.9
0.9 or 0.09
0.09 or 0.090909 . . .
0.9 or 0.090909 . . .
Note: I would model these on the open number line, often called the double number line when we represent rational number equivalencies on it. Or I would use a bar model, or money, depending on how the kids made sense of the numbers.
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