Activity Description
Title: WORKING WITH THE PLACE VALUE SYSTEM
Synopsis: Students will apply their understanding of place value from grade 3 to numbers within 1,000,000.
• In our base-ten system, the value of each place is 10 times the value of the place to the right.
• Each period of three digits separated by commas is read as hundreds, tens, and ones, followed by the name of the period, e.g., 325,641 is read as three hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred forty-one.
• Numbers can be expressed in standard form, word form, and expanded form.
• Rounding helps solve problems mentally and to check if an answer makes sense.
Lead-up Skills / Preassessment: Lead-up skills are listed to help teachers identify any missing readiness skills students may need to attempt the standards in this Activity. The sample reassessment contains a variety of problems to assess student understanding of place value and rounding numbers.
Anchor Problem: at least one is provided for the chunk of standards; this should be posted and referred to during the instruction associated with those standards.
Direct Instruction: Suggested teaching strategies are given that model for students what they need to do to begin their journey toward mastery. These strategies include sample problems to guide authentic practice, requiring students to demonstrate they can construct meaning for themselves. Students work with numbers that have place value from ones up to hundred millions. Charts are provided to help understand the place value system and work with large numbers.
Problems for Practice: Standards-based problems are provided to use for different parts of the instruction, including on the practice work and assessments. These problems require students to document that they have internalized the core ideas of the standard(s) and can show independent mastery.
Final Assessment: At Grades 3-8, the Activities include test items that reflect those used on the High Stakes Tests. There are practice problems leading up to this. The test items are constructed to look exactly like those items students will encounter on their High-Stakes Tests.
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