Purpose: to provide periodic student practice activities and teacher directed review of this skill after students have mastered it.
1. Problem of the Day
Materials:
Concrete objects that depict a problem (e.g. 4 packs of 12 pencils).
Place value mats,
Base ten materials
Description:
The teacher will present a problem of the day verbally and by displaying the items in a designated area. Students will solve using base ten materials and place value mats. This should initially be done each day, then 2 times/week, weekly, bi weekly, and then intermittently.
2. Multiplication Center
Materials:
Concrete objects that depict a problem (e.g. 3 packs of 24 paper clips) in numbered bags
Numbered Place value mats,
Base ten materials
Description:
Students will choose a bag and solve the problem on the correspondingly numbered place value mat. The teacher can then check solutions before the child leaves the center.
