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Planning notes

Level/Framework stage/Group: Level 3

Duration/Date: 4 weeks

Focus of this unit is place value and revising strategies

Focus Achievement Objectives
NA2-4: Know how many ones, tens, and hundreds are in whole numbers to at least 1000.
NA3-4: Know how many tenths, tens, hundreds, and thousands are in whole numbers.
NA3-1: Use a range of additive and simple multiplicative strategies with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages.
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Money Matters

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Units of Work
In this unit, students explore the place value system through engaging with a variety of money contexts including trading ($1, $10, and $100 notes) and extended trades and operations into using thousands, millions, and billions of dollars.
  • Create groupings of tens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands.
  • Read and write large whole number money amounts up to the value of 100 trillion.
  • Make sensible estimates for sums that are greater than / less than $10, $100, and $1000.
  • Find the sum of collections of $1, $10, $100, $1000, and $10...
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Using Calculators

Level One
Level Two
Level Three
Level Four
Level Five
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Say the forwards and backwards number word sequences in the range 0–100.

Say the forwards and backwards skip–counting sequences in the range 0–100 for twos, fives, and tens.

Say the forwards and backwards number word sequences by ones, tens, and hundreds in the range 0 – 1000.

Say the forwards and...

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Nudge

Level Two
Level Three
Level Four
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Say the forwards and backwards number word sequences by ones, tens, and hundreds in the range 0 – 1000.

Say the forwards and backwards whole number word sequences by ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands in the range 0–1 000 000, including finding numbers that are 10, 100, and 1 000 more or less than a...

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Large Numbers Roll Over

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Find out how many ones, tens, hundreds and thousands are in all of a whole number.

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Target 15 287

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This is a whole class game but can be played in small group situations where they can take turns to roll the die. To give students practice in adding numbers from one up to ones of thousands or decimal numbers from thousandths to ones. Both cards can be played at the same time which caters for...

add together numbers in ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands.

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How many tens and hundreds?

Level Two
Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Recall the number of tens and hundreds in 100s and 1000s.

Solve addition and subtraction problems by using place value partitioning.

Find out how many ones, tens, hundreds and thousands are in all of a whole number.

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Checking Addition and Subtraction by Estimation

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Solve addition and subtraction problems by using place value.

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Adding Tens and Ones

Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Solve addition and subtraction problems by using place value partitioning.

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Subtracting Tens

Level One
Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Solve addition and subtraction problems using groups of ten.

Solve addition and subtraction problems by using place value partitioning.

 

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Modeling numbers: 3-digit numbers

Level Two
Number and Algebra
Units of Work
This unit uses one of the digital learning objects, Modeling Numbers: 3-digit numbers, to support students in investigating the place value of numbers up to 999. The numbers are represented using a range of standard place value materials.
  • Represent numbers in the range of 0-999 using place value equipment. 
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Nesta and the Missing Zero

Level Two
Number and Algebra
Picture book activities
This is an activity based on the picture book Nesta and the Missing Zero. This book may no longer be available for purchase.
  • Students will be able to identify the impact on the value of a whole number when a zero is a place holder (for example 35 vs 305).
  • Students will be able to accurately read numbers to at least 1000.
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Place Value Houses

Level Two
Level Three
Level Four
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities

Identify numbers in the range 0–1000.

Identify all of the numbers in the range 0–1 000 000.

Identify and order decimals to three places.

Say the number one–thousandth, one–hundredth, one–tenth, one, and ten, etc, before and after any given number.

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