Lesson Plan
Hungry Alligator Game
Students get practice composing and comparing two-digit numbers as they compete to collect the most cards while playing the Hungry Alligator game. This lesson can be used alone or with the lesson plan **Greater than Less Than Equal to Game.**
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Objectives
Academic
Students will use an understanding of place value to compare two-digit numbers.
Language
Students will be able to describe the value of digits in the tens and ones places, and compare the value of two-digit numbers using drawings and partner support.
Introduction
(3 minutes)- Ask students which they would rather have, 14 or 41 dollars.
- Instruct students to sit knee to knee with a partner, and express their opinion using the sentence frame, "I would rather have ________ dollars because ________."
- Chose a few students to share. If students respond that 41 is more, challenge them to explain how they know that. For example, 41 is farther away from zero than 14 on the number line. Fourteen has one ten and four ones, and 41 has four tens and a single one.