Dear parent or guardian: This is a summary of the key ideas your child is learning in mathematics.

You can use this summary as background as you support your child’s work. Some suggestions for
simple activities you can do with your child are also included.

Representing Numbers to 200

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Representing Numbers Between 100 and 200
One tool that is valuable in representing numbers to 200 is the 200-chart. It shows
the sequence of numbers, although not the size.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110
111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120
121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130
131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140
141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150
151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160
161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170
171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180
181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190
191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200

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Representing Numbers Between 100 and 200 (continued)

Base ten blocks are useful because they provide students with a sense of the size of
the numbers.

The 100-flat will be a new block for students. A 100-flat is made up of ten 10-rods.

A number such as 120 can be represented either as 1 hundred + 2 tens or as 12 tens.

1 hundred + 2 tens 12 tens

Any number between 100 and 200 can be written as 100 + a one-digit or
two-digit number.

For example, you can write 152 in either of these ways:

100 + 52
100 + 50 + 2

You can write 108 like this:

100 + 8

Choosing a Physical Model

Although students can still represent numbers such as 153 with ones, it takes an
awful lot of ones and is generally impractical.

Even tally marks and 10-frames become less practical with this size of number.

For this reason, base ten blocks are probably the best physical representation.

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Helping Your Child

Continue the sorts of activities suggested when representing two-digit numbers but
extend them to numbers between 100 and 200.

For example, if you encounter a number such as 160 (e.g., Canada is 160 years old),
ask your child to represent it for you and tell you what the 1 and 6 and 0 mean.

Definitions
10-frame: a grid that can hold 10 counters in 2 rows of 5 squares each; you place
one counter in each square to show a particular number

200-chart: a 20-by-10 grid showing the counting numbers 1 to 200 (or 0 to 199)
in rows of 10

base ten blocks: materials for representing numbers, consisting of proportional

blocks made up of centimetre cubes

tally marks: groups of short lines used to show amounts; four straight lines show
1, 2, 3, 4, and then a diagonal line across those lines shows 5

2 6 12

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