Lesson Idea | Exploring Place Value - Number Architects and Demolition Crews!
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Chosen for its hands-on, collaborative approach that helps students build a clear understanding of tens and ones through active learning
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Exploring Place Value – Number Architects and Demolition Crews! is a hands-on math lesson designed to help students understand place value through the tens place. Using movement, group work, and unifix cubes, students explore how numbers can be composed and decomposed into tens and ones. The lesson encourages creative problem-solving, teamwork, and conceptual understanding of how ten ones make a ten. Ideal for early elementary grades, this engaging 45–60 minute activity blends math, movement, and collaboration.
Common Core Standards Addressed
Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value.
K.NBT.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.
Lesson Idea | Exploring Place Value - Number Architects and Demolition Crews!
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