What do you do when Lady Di of Ameter and her husband Sir Cumference decide to throw a surprise birthday party for King Arthur and they have no idea how many people to expect?
Well, they start to count the people as they arrive in droves!
And so we started counting. Each bean represented one person.
What a fun way to discover a better way to count big numbers and to discover the need for place value.
We wrote down our strategies.
And started counting. 1... 2... 3...
This was going to take a long, long time.
We came up with some new strategies. This group started counting by 10's.
And then by 100's. We needed some bowls and cups to keep track.
Each group then brought their 1,000's, 100's, 10's, and 1's to our group staging area, the place value chart.
We had to do some regrouping, and ended up with 5,614!
Here's how one student drew the activity.
We practiced on paper.
We practiced using base 10 blocks.
After literally hours of bean counting,
place value is making sense to us.
An example of a differentiated mini-lesson that always happen when we do Math Adventures.
We look forward to many an adventure using the Sir Cumference book series during our year of "quest".
Big ideas for little people!
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