Groupings of Tens and Ones: Craft – Representing Tens and Ones

Subject: Math, Numbers and Operations in Base Ten

Type: 1 Lesson Plan, Craft

Skills:

• Practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships
• Represent a two-digit number by filling in ten frames to "cement" their understanding of number value
• Write a number sentence in expanded form to equal a two-digit number in the ten frame
• Work in partners to create a paper chain to represent a two-digit number

Materials Needed: Required:

• Blank paper
• Pencils, red and blue crayons/colored pencils
• Tape or glue or stapler, craft sticks or pencils or crayons –or- cut up strips of paper,
• Rubber bands
• Per student:
  • 1 die
  • Base ten blocks: tens and ones
  • Colored strips of paper – 2 different colors, 1 inch wide x 8 1/2 inches long (cutting a regular 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper will work)
  • Index cards or 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper cut up in ¼ pieces – one piece per group of partners
  • Document camera or whiteboard

    blank paper, pencils, red and blue crayons/colored pencils, tape or glue or stapler, base ten blocks: tens and ones, colored strips of paper – 2 different colors, 1 inch wide x 8 1/2 inches long (cutting a regular 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper will work), index cards or 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper cut up in ¼ pieces – one piece per group of partners, and document camera or whiteboard

Printable Resources:

• “Ten Frame” student sheet (1 copy per student)

CCSS: 1.NBT.2

File Type: PDF Document