Lesson Plan
Unscramble the Place Value
Help your students unscramble the numbers using their knowledge of place value up to thousands! In this lesson, students will be able to see how numbers within a larger number have different values.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to show place value up to thousands using numbers.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Ask a student to come up with a four-digit number.
- Write the four-digit number on the board.
- Explain to the students that they will be working with place value, or the amount each digit in a number represents.
- Refer back to the four-digit number written on the board.
- Ask the students how much each digit represents.
- Invite a student to come up and show his classmates using place value blocks.
- Next, break the number down using words. For example, if the number chosen was 1321, write one thousand, three hundreds, two tens, and one one.
- Explain to the students that they will be playing a game where they must unscramble a number written in words using the standard form of the number, or the number written with numerals.