Place Value Ordering

Last week the students practiced ordering larger numbers. To assess their individual knowledge, I gave each student a different number card. The student wrote their number on the recording sheet, built it with Base Ten Blocks, and then drew it with sticks and dots. They then wrote how many tens and ones were in their number on a t-chart. The students then rotated to the next desk. They repeated the same process but with a new number. They repeated this again by going to the next seat. By doing it this way, each student was guaranteed to have a different set of numbers than all of the other students. After following the steps for three numbers, the students put them in order from greatest to least and least to greatest. We then repeated the process again. The students then worked in small groups to discuss their findings.