Place Value Lesson

Learning Intention: Practicing place value skills

0 Last night I bundled THIS many sticks into

5 bundles of 10, how many bundles do I have?
Write it down, don't say it out loud. Show it to
10 your partner do they have the right answer?
How do you know?

Interactive whiteboard has

the number 27 on the
screen.

15 Bundling tens for Gp1 work on ten and loose stick

problems.
For Gp2 work on addition and subtraction of
bundles of 10s.
20
25
30 4 dice throw up.
Making the biggest/smallest number.
Use number tags to lay the number out.
35
40 Human number line
45
50 Reflection activity:

Rocket writing 2 laps of

the sand timer:
Today I found out...

55
Reflection: This lesson completely died. I was so embarassed. The students didn't know what
bundled meant as I realised later, the class completely turned into chaos. Everyone was upset. It
didn't even get as far as the separating into 2 different groups.
Second attempt
Learning Intention:
We will learn that a number with 4 digits is made up of THOUSANDS, HUNDREDS, TENS and
UNITS.
All of us on the floor. I will make a number using a random number generator.
4356
Circle the 3. What is this number? 3.
What place value talks about is that there are columns separating these numbers into different
values.
THOUSANDS HUNDREDS TENS and Sometimes people call these ONES and some call them
UNITS do you have a class preference?
We unpack 4356 into 4000 + 300 + 50 + 6 in vertical columns.

Now let's practice unpacking these numbers: (put up on the interactive whiteboard)
1057, 5356, 2813, 5110, 3448, 9368, 3003, 5057, 5030, 5804
Reflection:
This lesson was much better than my first attempt I should not have used numbers with 0s in the
hundreds or tens columns just yet though.