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Lesson Plan

Show It to Know It!

Help your students understand place value with this hands-on lesson. Using place value cards and interlocking cubes, they'll represent different numbers in a fun, social manner.
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to visually represent ones and tens, as well as understand two-digit values in terms of ones and tens.

Introduction

(10 minutes)
  • Invite the students to sit down at their desks.
  • Explain to the students that today they will be learning about place value using two digit numbers.
  • Ask the students to think of a number between 20 and 30.
  • Call on a student to give you a number.
  • Write this number on the board. (Let’s pretend the number is 21.)
  • Say the number out loud.
  • Underline the number 1, and write "ones" underneath it. Underline the number 2, write "tens" underneath it.
  • Explain to the students that today they will learn about place value with groups of ones and tens. They will also learn how to represent the number twenty-one using place value cards.