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Lesson Plan

Hop! Hop! Hop!: Strategic Number Lines

With this movement-integrated lesson, students will use their energy to practice three-digit addition on a number line! Part of this lesson is designed for the outdoors, but the activities can easily be brought inside on a rainy day.
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Learning Objectives

Use the number line strategy to solve three-digit addition problems.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Lead the students in counting the three-digit number, 437, using base ten blocks.
  • Demonstrate how the same number can be counted by creating a number line. (Start at 0 and count four hundreds, showing one “hop” for each 100 and marking the place for each hundred. Continue with the 3 tens and 7 ones.)
  • Lead the students in counting the number using the number line.
  • Tell the students that they will be learning how to add three-digit numbers using the number line strategy.