Tagged as: Place Value
Series: Book Ideas
Make Room for Halloween Math
October 13, 2015
Have some Halloween fun with the witch’s tale Room on the Broom. In this lively story by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, a witch makes room for her animal friends to ride on her broomstick… until there’s one too many animals, and the broom snaps in two. The central question of this book – Is there room on the broom for me? – is a mathematical one.
- Topic: Number Sense, Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Animals, Seasonal, Place Value, Holiday, Books, Room on the Broom, Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler
Series: Focus on the Child April 7, 2014
Place Value: Meaning of the Digits with Child 14
This second grader has uncertainty about the meaning of the digits. He is working to construct the understanding that place determines the value of a number.
- Topic: Number Sense, Counting
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Child 14, Place Value
Series: Book Ideas September 18, 2013
How “Big” is a Million?
Children like big numbers! Often before they can say all the numbers from one to one hundred reliably, children understand that one hundred is a lot. They quickly learn that one thousand is even more…
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Place Value, Books, How Much is a Million, David Schwartz, Steven Kellogg, Count to a Million, Jerry Pallotta
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