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Lesson Plan

Popping Into Place Value

Strong place value recognition is a necessity to order, estimate, round, and check for the accuracy of numbers. In this lesson, students will compare and order numbers using what they know about place value.
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Learning Objectives

Students will use their knowledge of place value to compare and order numbers.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Introduce this lesson by asking your class to name the place values.
  • Show your students a hundreds block and a ones cube as visual aids. Ask your students to explain whether or not these two aids have the same value.
  • Repeat the previous step with the tens block and a ones cube.
  • Reiterate that even if the number of pieces is equal, the value, or size, of each piece determines which is less, or smaller, and which is greater, or bigger.
  • Show the Greater Than or Less Than video.
  • Alternatively, you can expand two numbers on the board to determine which is greater.