Place Value

Empowered Learner, Computational Thinker

Overview

Place value is a concept that children have a difficult time grasping. The virtual manipulative at Toy Theater helps to teach place value by providing a visual representation for ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, and millions place value.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

Be able to learn the place value of numbers by placing them in the chart.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary Words:

Place Value: Place Value refers to the value of a digit.
Place: Place is the location of the digit in the number.

Value: Value is how much the digit is worth.

Pre-planning

To prepare for this lesson:

Preview the Place Value Chart at Toy Theater.
Introduce the Place Value Chart to the students and provide a demonstration of how to use the virtual manipulative.
Preview the Overview at Class Playground.
Here are additional resources to look at and decide if you would like to use them with the lesson.

Note: This can be done as a whole class and with partners. Can be very helpful in small group instruction, or with intervention. This can also be adapted for lower grades. Use this mat for lower grades.

Accommodations

See Accommodations Page and Charts on the 21things4students.net site in the Teacher Resources.

Steps

Directions for this activity:

Introduce the students to Place Value using the videos and songs in the pre-planning section.
Introduce the students to the Virtual Place Value Chart.
Give the students a number to fill in the chart. They will click on the digits above and drag them to the chart.
Students read the number aloud.
Students can see the number broken down into expanded form, they read it aloud.
The word form is provided as well to help with reading the number.
The teacher can question the students with the values of digits in the chart.

Assessment Options

Different options for assessing the students:

Observations
Check for understanding
Exit tickets.
Short written quiz.
Class discussion of math talks, number talks.
The teacher will create a FlipGrid or the students will to teach the concept of place value.
Visit classplayground.com for printables and worksheets.

MITECS COMPETENCIES & ISTE STANDARDS

MITECS: Michigan adopted the "ISTE Standards for Students" called MITECS (Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students) in 2018.

Empowered Learner
1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
1b. Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
1c. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
1d. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge

Computational Thinker
5a. Students formulate problem definitions suited for technology assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.
5c. Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
5d. Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.