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The Value of Place Value
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The Value of Place Value Overview Students will build their flexibility in using numbers by exploring the connections between the number symbols and their representations with base-ten materials. Grades 2 - 6 Math Concepts Grades 2 - 4 • whole number place value (through thousands) • money Grades 4 - 6 • decimal place value (through thousandths) • metric units (meters, decimeters, centimeters) Materials • TI-15 • pencil • Counting on Frank by Rod Clement • base-ten materials • student activity (pages 32 and 33) Introduction 1. Read Counting On Frank by Rod Clement. Discuss some other kinds of questions that a person could ask about how many objects fit in or on other objects. 2. Give each group of students a large pile of units (over 300) from the base-ten materials, and tell them that this is how many jelly beans fit into a jar that you filled. Ask them to count the "jelly beans," and observe the techniques they use (counting one at a time, making groups of 10, etc.). 3. Tell students you have run out of unit pieces and then ask: How many rods (groups of 10) would I need to use to make a pile of jelly beans the same size as yours? 4. Have students explore the answer to this problem with their units or apply their knowledge of place value. Then show them how to explore the answer using the calculator. 5. Have students compare their solutions with the base-ten materials to the calculator display. (They can make 31 tens rods from the 314 units, with 4 units left over.) ³ To use the Place Value feature for this activity: 1. Press ‹ ‡. 2. Press " ® to select MAN (Manual). 3. Press $ ® to set the Place Value mode to 11-. This lets you find out how many ones, tens, hundreds, etc., are in a number. (The mode - 1 - . is used to find what digit is in the ones, tens, hundreds, etc., place.) ³ To explore answers to this problem on the calculator: 1. Press ‹. 2. Enter the number of units (for example, 314). 3. Press Œ ' to see the display. (Using 314, the display is 31í, meaning there are 31 tens in 314.) © 2000 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED TI-15: A Guide for Teachers 29