Unlocking Numbers: Exploring Place Value with Blocks!

Mathematics Grades 4th Grade 4:21 Video
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Lesson Description

Learn about place value using blocks! Understand how ones, tens, and hundreds work together to make bigger numbers.

Video Resource

Place value blocks

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Duration: 4:21
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Key Concepts

  • Place Value (Ones, Tens, Hundreds)
  • Representing numbers with physical models (blocks)
  • Understanding the relationship between ones, tens, and hundreds

Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to identify and represent numbers using place value blocks (ones, tens, and hundreds).
  • Students will be able to determine the value of a number represented by place value blocks.
  • Students will be able to build a number using place value blocks given a specific number.

Educator Instructions

  • Introduction (5 mins)
    Begin by asking students what they know about place value. Show them different number and ask them which is the ones, tens and hundreds place.
  • Video Viewing (7 mins)
    Play the YouTube video 'Place value blocks'. Instruct students to pay attention to how the blocks are used to represent numbers.
  • Guided Practice (10 mins)
    After the video, review the concepts. Use physical place value blocks (if available) or drawings to demonstrate how to represent numbers like 239 and 923. Have students practice representing different numbers with the blocks.
  • Independent Practice (10 mins)
    Provide students with a worksheet containing problems where they need to identify the number represented by a set of place value blocks or draw blocks to represent a given number.
  • Wrap-up (3 mins)
    Review the main concepts and answer any remaining questions. Briefly introduce the idea that place value extends to larger numbers (thousands, ten thousands, etc.).

Interactive Exercises

  • Block Building Challenge
    Call out a number (e.g., 456). Have students race to build the number using place value blocks. The first student to correctly build the number wins.
  • Mystery Number
    Describe a number using clues related to place value (e.g., 'I have 3 hundreds, 2 tens, and 5 ones'). Have students guess the number.

Discussion Questions

  • What is the value of a single block?
  • How many ones make a ten?
  • How many tens make a hundred?
  • Can you think of a time when understanding place value is helpful in real life?

Skills Developed

  • Understanding Place Value
  • Number Representation
  • Problem-Solving
  • Critical Thinking

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1:

What number is shown by 2 hundreds, 4 tens, and 5 ones?

Correct Answer: 245

Question 2:

How many ones are in one ten?

Correct Answer: 10

Question 3:

Which place value is the furthest to the right in a number?

Correct Answer: Ones

Question 4:

What is the value of a flat, square block that shows 100?

Correct Answer: Hundred

Question 5:

Which of these numbers has 7 in the hundreds place?

Correct Answer: 721

Question 6:

If you have 3 hundreds blocks, what number do they represent?

Correct Answer: 300

Question 7:

How would you represent the number 50 using only tens blocks?

Correct Answer: 5 tens blocks

Question 8:

Which number is bigger: 324 or 342?

Correct Answer: 342

Question 9:

Which of the following is equal to 4 hundreds blocks and 8 ones blocks?

Correct Answer: 408

Question 10:

What place value block is shown by a long rectangle made of 10 small squares?

Correct Answer: Ten

Fill in the Blank Questions

Question 1:

The number 325 has 3 _______.

Correct Answer: hundreds

Question 2:

A block showing 10 small squares represents one _______.

Correct Answer: ten

Question 3:

The digit in the ones place of the number 482 is _______.

Correct Answer: 2

Question 4:

One hundred is the same as _______ tens.

Correct Answer: 10

Question 5:

In the number 67, the 6 is in the _______ place.

Correct Answer: tens

Question 6:

The largest number you can make with hundreds, tens and ones, without going over 1,000 is _______.

Correct Answer: 999

Question 7:

If you have 2 hundreds and 7 ones, the number is _______.

Correct Answer: 207

Question 8:

430 has _______ tens.

Correct Answer: 3

Question 9:

The value of the '5' in the number 583 is _______.

Correct Answer: 500

Question 10:

The place value to the left of the tens place is the _______ place.

Correct Answer: hundreds

Educational Standards

4.N.1.1:Read, write, discuss, and represent whole numbers up to 1,000,000. Representations may include numerals, words, pictures, number lines, and manipulatives. 4.N.1.2:Use place value to describe whole numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000 in terms of millions, hundred thousands, ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones with written, standard, and expanded forms.

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