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Number Concepts to 1000

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Apothem Team
Grade 3 · Number
LESSON AT A GLANCE
Warm-up
5 min
Explore
15 min
Consolidate
10 min
Practice
12 min
Exit ticket
3 min

Warm-up

Show 342 with base-ten blocks. What number is this? What does the 3 mean? (300, three hundreds.) What does the 4 mean? (40, four tens.) Now show 408. What is missing? (No tens rod.) What does the zero mean in 408? It holds the tens place so the 4 stays a four hundred.

Explore

Skip-count challenge: start at 347, count by 10s forward to 437. What changed? (Only the tens digit.) Start at 695, count forward by 5s to 720. What happened at 700? Bridge-crossing moments reveal the carry mechanism of place value.

Consolidate

Practice

Students represent 8 three-digit numbers with blocks and record the value of each digit. Skip-count by 4s, 6s, and 9s from given starting points. Exit ticket: what is the value of each digit in 628?

Exit ticket

Students represent 8 three-digit numbers with blocks and record the value of each digit. Skip-count by 4s, 6s, and 9s from given starting points. Exit ticket: what is the value of each digit in 628?

TIP  Always name the value, not just the digit. The 4 in 342 is forty, not four. The 4 in 408 is four hundred, not four. This language precision prevents place value errors in computation.
WORKED EXAMPLES
What is the value of the 7 in 573? In 739? In 307?

In 573: 7 is in the tens place, value = 70. In 739: 7 is in the hundreds place, value = 700. In 307: 7 is in the ones place, value = 7. Same digit, three different values depending on position.

Count by 7s from 0 to 56.

0, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56. This is the 7-times table. Students who can skip-count to 56 know all multiplication facts for 7 up to 7x8=56.

MATERIALS
Base-ten blocks (hundreds flats, tens rods, ones units)
Place value mats to 1000
Hundred chart (0-999 chart if available)
Number lines 0-1000
Skip-counting strips
WATCH FOR
!Students may write 3 hundreds, 4 tens, 2 ones as 300402. They have written each digit's value separately. Use base-ten blocks and place value mats to show that 3 flats + 4 rods + 2 units = 342 written as a single number.
!Students may confuse the digit and its value: the digit is 4, its value is 40. Keep these two words distinct.