Using place value blocks

Using place value blocks

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources

Teacher Sheet

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Use the place value blocks your teacher has given you to show each number below.

a) The number:    2.6
b) The number:    1.25
c) The number:    1.324
d) The number:    2.03
e) The number:    1.201
f) The number:    2.004

Teacher Checklist

Use if incorrect, or   if correct [or other annotations on their response, e.g., the number their blocks represent]

Student's Name

Task

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Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper, and other equipment.
Equipment: Place value blocks (1's, 10's, 100's, 1000's).  NOTE: Decimal pipes could also be used to show the decimal numbers.
  • This task is designed to be carried out with a small group of students or individually.
  • Print off one "student" sheet for yourself. The students do not need a worksheet.
  • Depending on the number of students you are assessing at a time, you may wish to use the teacher checklist attached.
  • For the purpose of this task, the 1000's block is ones, the 100's block is tenths, the 10's block is hundredths, and the 1's block is thousandths.
  • Model how the place value blocks are broken into smaller parts reiterating their values for this resource, i.e., .slicing/breaking the ones into tenths, tenths into hundredths, and hundredths into thousandths.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Knowledge
Keywords: 
place value, decimals
Description of task: 
Using place value blocks students demonstrate their ability to explain the meaning of digits in decimal numbers up to 3 decimal places.
Answers/responses: 
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