Popsicle Place Value

Grade Level(s):  Kindergarten - 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.K.NBT.A.1: Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

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

·         CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2.A: 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones — called a "ten."

·         CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2.B: The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

·         CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2.C: The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).

Targeted Needs of Student:

Understanding place value, deconstructing numbers, counting, understanding representation of ones and tens, arranging numbers using tens and ones, recognizing the highest number in relation to another number  

Goal:

Providing students with practice counting based on ones and tens

Materials Needed:

1. Popsicle sticks
2. Two colored markers
3. Bags for sets
4. Tally chart or scrap paper

Explanation/Summary:

Students will be in pairs and each will have a set of popsicle sticks. The popsicle sticks will have a dot on one side and ten dots on the other side. Students will drop the sticks and then count to see the number that is represented. They count the side with the one dot as ones and then the side with the ten dots as a group of ten. For instance, if a player got 4 sides with one dot and 6 sides with ten dots, then they would have 64. The player who gets the number with the highest total gets a point to be recorded on a scratch piece of paper or on the tally chart.

 

Resource:

Shared with me by Angelica Perez