Big Ideas:
Each digit of a number has a value depending on its place within the number.
The hundreds place tells you how many hundreds are in a number, the tens place tells you how many tens are in a number, and the ones place tells you how many ones are in a number.
A one digit number is made up of ones, a ten is made up of one ten or ten ones, a hundred is made up of one hundred ones or ten tens.
Numbers can be represented in multiple ways to show the same number.
Numbers can be shown in a variety of ways, including modeled with base ten blocks. In this lesson students are taking their knowledge of place value and applying it to visualizing a number by the base ten blocks.
Vocabulary: base-ten, digit, value, place, numeral, number, word form, regroup
Special Materials:
base ten blocks
Lesson plan