December Math: Place Value

Our new unit of study in math workshop this month is place value. We will be doing a lot of work in our math journals as students work to explain their ideas, and not as many worksheets. Today we talked about patterns on the 0-99 number chart. We will be filling the chart up over the next few day using clues from other numbers already in place. Today we used different strategies to place new numbers such as skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's. We reviewed how you can skip count by tens starting at any number. For example 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, etc. We also praticed telling what number is in the ones and tens place.

As always, we will continue to work every day with daily math review (minute math), timed tests for computation, mental math, and calendar. We will also be learning new menu math games this week to reinforce place value skills.