Pool Noodle Place Value

Grade Level(s):  1^st Grade

Content Area:                                                                        Process Area:

Numbers and Operations                                           Problem-Solving

Algebra                                                           Reasoning and Proof

Geometry                                                                    Communication

Measurement                                                             Representation

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability                    Connections

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2: Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.

Targeted Needs of Student:

Representing place value with tactile objects, understanding tens are bigger than ones, understanding ten ones equal one ten

Goal:

To provide students with a tactile way to show place value and represent numbers

Materials Needed:

1.      Pool noodles (one color)

2.      Cut up pool noodles (another color)

3.      Whiteboard

4.      Expo markers

Explanation/Summary:

The teacher will first show that ten of the blue small pool noodles equal one large green pool noodle. Then She will show that one ten is written as a 10. Then she will allow groups of students to work and represent different numbers that she gives them. For instance, she might give a group of students the number 83 and they will have to build the number using pool noodles (8 green long and 3 small blue).

Resource:                          

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