This activity is a nice context for getting pupils to explore number bonds to $10$. It also provides opportunities for you to highlight a systematic approach.

It would be good to introduce this pratically so that there are three containers representing the pies and ten counters to represent the coins. You could start by asking a number of children to distribute the counters in the tins to satisfy the rules. Keep a record of the ways that they have found on the board and then give learners time to work in pairs on more solutions.

At some stage, you may want to bring them together to ask how they will know that they have all the different ways. Take some suggestions from the class, and look out for those that realise that a system or order will be necessary. You could go on to complete the problem as a whole group, or give more time to pairs.

Tell me about the number of coins you have in each pie.
How are you thinking about this?
Do you think you've found all the possible ways?

Children could change the numbers involved, for example, by finding the number of solutions for a different number of coins and/or a different number of pies.

Having counters available for all children to use will help them access this problem. It may be appropriate to have three circles drawn on a piece of paper to represent the pies so that they can move the counters from circle to circle.